Motív vydaja v textoch Boženy Slančíkovej Timravy (Interpretácia troch vybraných poviedok k 150. výročiu narodenia autorky)
Motive of Marriage in Texts of Božena Slančíková Timrava (Interpretation of Three Short Stories at Occasion of Author's 150th Birth Anniversary

Summary/Abstract: In this article we focus on the interpretation of three short stories with motive of marriage written by famous Slovak female writer Božena Slančíková Timrava. We are concerned how the main motive of the texts Za koho ísť?, Pozde and Príde čas is presented from different points of view and via different characters. Important feature we found in Timrava’s texts is the picture of people from the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. She captures them together with their inner world, turmoil as well as their hopes and dreams. What is very important is that the inner life of presented characters is usually very different from their outer behavior. We see them in their simple humanness; we observe their attempts to hide from the society as well as their shame, defiance and desire to manipulate others according their own wishes. As one of the ways how to explain their behavior we suggest the Maslow’s theory of the motivation and we are presenting its main points in the theoretical part of our paper. The desire to fulfill one’s needs is very strong in examined texts and we can consider it an underlying driving force of both conscious and unconscious behavior of the characters and it is also the main factor which is creating and moving the story line.

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