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<p>The purpose of this essay is to analyze Tolkien’s work The Hobbit since this has not been done to the same extent as the Lord of the Rings. The aim of this essay is see if the hobbit Bilbo is a hero and if so in what way. The questions I aim to answer in this essay are:</p><p>• Why does the main character leave his home?</p><p>• What creatures does the hero encounter on his journey and how does he defeat these?</p><p>• In what ways is Bilbo a hero?</p><p>• How does Tolkien narrate The Hobbit?</p><p>To answer these questions I have used Jung’s archetype theory which is useful when comparing different works and looking for similarities. I have partly used the approach of psychoanalysis as well, where knowledge of the author is important when interpreting the work.</p><p>The reason the main character, Bilbo, leaves his home is part curiosity and part that he is forced by others to go. On his journey he encounters many different creatures including trolls, goblins, the creature Gollum, spiders, wood-elves and the dragon Smaug. Bilbo uses his wits and bravery to survive the different creatures he meets. Bilbo is a hero in that, even though he may not have what is usually characteristic for a hero, he tries his best and many times acts first and thinks later to save his friends. Through the encounters in the world, the main character Bilbo develops into a hero. The author mostly uses the view of a third-person narrative, but sometimes intrudes and turns directly to the reader. The work shares narrative features with how oral narratives are told, and the narrator is omniscient. In his work, you can trace older stories and traditions which the author was very familiar with.</p>

The purpose of this essay is to analyze Tolkien’s work The Hobbit since this has not been done to the same extent as the Lord of the Rings. The aim of this essay is see if the hobbit Bilbo is a hero and if so in what way. The questions I aim to answer in this essay are: • Why does the main character leave his home? • What creatures does the hero encounter on his journey and how does he defeat these? • In what ways is Bilbo a hero? • How does Tolkien narrate The Hobbit? To answer these questions I have used Jung’s archetype theory which is useful when comparing different works and looking for similarities. I have partly used the approach of psychoanalysis as well, where knowledge of the author is important when interpreting the work. The reason the main character, Bilbo, leaves his home is part curiosity and part that he is forced by others to go. On his journey he encounters many different creatures including trolls, goblins, the creature Gollum, spiders, wood-elves and the dragon Smaug. Bilbo uses his wits and bravery to survive the different creatures he meets. Bilbo is a hero in that, even though he may not have what is usually characteristic for a hero, he tries his best and many times acts first and thinks later to save his friends. Through the encounters in the world, the main character Bilbo develops into a hero. The author mostly uses the view of a third-person narrative, but sometimes intrudes and turns directly to the reader. The work shares narrative features with how oral narratives are told, and the narrator is omniscient. In his work, you can trace older stories and traditions which the author was very familiar with.

This essay demonstrates how Bilbo, the main protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, is a feminine hero despite being male. The study builds on concepts of traditional gender norms which show men as strong, intelligent beings and overall superior to the weak and emotional women. Also included in the study is Carl Jung’s anima archetype (the hypothesized feminine side of the man) as well as conventional hero-types, comparing Bilbo to three other heroes of Tolkien’s creation (Aragorn, Frodo and Beorn) in order to categorize Bilbo and show what kind of a hero he is. The essay shows that Bilbo, based on his actions and personality, and in accordance with the traditional gender norms, classifies as a feminine hero. / Denna uppsats demonstrerar hur Bilbo, huvudkaraktären i J.R.R. Tolkiens The Hobbit, är en feminin hjälte trots att han är manlig. Studien bygger på koncept av traditionella könsnormer som visar män som starka, intelligenta varelser och allmänt överlägsna de svaga och emotionella kvinnorna. Också inkluderat i studien är Carl Jungs anima-arketyp (den hypotetiserade feminina sidan av mannen) såväl som konventionella hjälte-typer och jämför Bilbo med tre andra hjältar som Tolkien skapat (Aragorn, Frodo och Beorn) för att kunna kategorisera Bilbo och visa vad för slags hjälte han är. Uppsatsen visar att Bilbo, baserat på hans handlingar och personlighet, och i överensstämmelse med de traditionella könsnormerna, klassificeras som en feminin hjälte.

This essay argues that the protagonist of The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins can be considered to be a female character in a male form. By applying feminist literary criticism this essay map out the traditional gender roles in society along with the traditional gender roles in Middle Earth in order to investigate Bilbo’s female characteristics, the similarities between him and women in patriarchal society as well as the female imagery present in The Hobbit. The results show that Bilbo Baggins’ characteristics such as emotionality, sensitivity and compassion corresponds more to the traditional female gender norms than that of the male gender norms. The results also indicate the similarities between Bilbo’s experiences and that of women in a patriarchal society, such as the attention to being respectable and difficulties working in a male-dominated field.

Bien que les techniques d'autotest intégré soient en perpétuel développement sous forme de théories et de schémas de conception, leur réalisation concrète et leur implémentation posent des problèmes cruciaux. Une stratégie d'autotest intégré est proposée dans cette thèse pour des circuits générés par compilation de silicium. Le schéma UBIST d'unification du test en-ligne et hors-ligne assure la plupart des tests nécessaires durant la vie d'un circuit intégré (test de fin de fabrication, test de maintenance, test en-ligne,...). A la base du schéma ubist se trouve le schéma self-checking (test en-ligne, pour lequel le circuit est compose de blocs fonctionnels strongly fault secure (sfs) et de contrôleurs strongly code disjoint (scd). Le but a atteindre par de tels circuits est couramment appelé le totally self-checking goal, qui consiste a détecter la première erreur survenant aux sorties du bloc fonctionnel, sous forme d'indication d'erreur sur les sorties du contrôleur. Autour de ce schéma self-checking est implémentée une structure de test, du type bilbo, assurant des phases de test hors-ligne, qui a pour objectif d'augmenter le taux de couverture des pannes multiples et de renforcer les propriétés SFS et SCD pour certains blocs fonctionnels et contrôleurs. L'unification des tests en-ligne et hors-ligne permet de tirer les avantages de chacun de ces tests, permettant une implémentation efficace d'autotest intégré. Une méthodologie de conception pour implémenter ce schéma UBIST est proposée pour des parties contrôle hiérarchiques a base de plas et des parties operatives parallèles en structure bit-slice (du type de celle du mc 68000). Ce sont les architectures cibles utilisées par le compilateur de silicium SYCO (développé au sein de l'équipe d'architecture des ordinateurs du laboratoire TIM3/IMAG). Une solution topologique efficace est proposée pour ces schémas UBIST

Concluding on this note, the thesis argues that reading The Lord of the Rings in this way renders postcolonial concepts accessible to a whole generation of readers already familiar with the series, and points to the possibility of examining other contemporary texts, or even further analysis of Tolkien's to reveal more postcolonial sensitivities engendered in the texts.; This thesis examines J.R.R. Tolkien's texts The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King from a postcolonial literary perspective. By examining how these texts, written at the decline of the British Empire, engage with the theoretical polemics of imperialism, this thesis takes a new look at these popular and widely regarded books from a stance of serious academic interest. The first chapter examines how certain characters, who are Othered temporally in the realm of Middle-earth, manage to find a place of narrative centrality from the defamiliarized view of Merry, Pippin, Samwise, and Frodo, uncannily reoccurring throughout the narrative in increasingly disturbing manifestations. From there, the thesis moves on to uncanny places, examining in detail Mirkwood, Moria, Dunharrow, and the Shire at the end of The Return of the King. Each of these locations in Middle-earth helps Tolkien to explore the relationship between colonizer, colonized, and fetishism; the colonizer(s) disavow their own fears of these places by fetishizing the pathways they colonize for their safe passage. Since their paths are unsustainable colonially, these fetishes cannot fulfill their function, as the places are marked with unavoidable reminders of wildness and uncontrollability which cannot successfully be repressed for long. Ending this chapter with a discussion of the hobbit's return to the Shire, the argument moves into the next chapter that discusses the small-scale colonization that takes place in the heart of Frodo himself, making the Shire he used to know firmly unavailable to him. The Ring, in this case, is the colonizer, doubling, fracturing, and displacing Frodo's selfhood so that he becomes unfamiliar to himself. The uncanniness that this produces and Frodo's inability to heal from his experience with the Ring, this thesis argues, echoes the postcolonial themes of irreconcilability and the fantasy of origin.