Abstract This paper will attempt to analyze how similar forms of power play are manifested towards the protagonists in both The Bell Jar and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The aim of the essay is to investigate how power play affects the protagonists’ relations with their caregivers and how it affects their treatments. Thus, the hypothesis is that it is the power play that prevents the protagonists in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and The Bell Jar from recovering from their mental illness, which is confirmed by my analysis. Therefore, the concept of power play will be used in the essay as an instrument of analysis. The hypothesis will be discussed from five main points: obstacles to recovery, caregivers’ role in recovery, patients’ response to treatment, the role of power play, and the negative impact which power play has on recovery. Keywords: Power play, mental illness, treatment, recovery, patient-caregiver relationship, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sylvia Plath, Reet Sjögren.

Name: Analysis of offensive futsal combinations and their practice Aims: The diploma thesis aims to analyse the offensive game combinations of an elite futsal FIFA team from the point of view of the progression of the match, with focus on its training methods. Methods: The thesis expertly evaluates video recordings of Kazakhstan team from its impersonal and structured observing. To interpret the data, qualitative approach was used, as based on notational analysis and graphical diagrams. Results: The thesis records the game co-operations which are the most important to successfully finish the offensive. It discovers several variations of gradual offensive with the emphasis on the detail of its execution. It also describes and illustrates the scheme of the "power play." The results are followed by the suggested training methods. Key words: tactics, strategy, technique, shooting, power play, World cup

Discovering the crucial factors that contribute to goal success in sports analytics, this thesis aimsto utilize Random Forest classification to predict the outcome of shots and pre-shot events in powerplay situations. Through three experiments, the study evaluated the use of shots, shots with pre-shotevents, and shots with pre-shot events over sections. The first experiment used only shots, while thesecond experiment focused on shots with pre-shot events, where both compared it with shots over anexpected goal value of 0.08 or higher. The third experiment examined shots with pre-shot events acrossdifferent sections. Our findings demonstrated that the models in our experiments achieved accuracyscores ranging from 78% to 96% and F1 scores between 0% and 24%. Notably, the models in experiment3 demonstrated lower recall scores. The feature importance analysis revealed that pre-shotevents played a significant role in the predictive models of the second and third experiments, indicatingtheir substantial impact on the outcomes. A noteworthy conclusion arising from the discussion isthe recommendation for future research to conduct a more comprehensive exploration into the impactof pre-shot events, given their demonstrated significance in predicting goals. Such an investigation isdeemed necessary and justified.

L’œuvre de Nelly Arcan s’inscrit dans un pan de la littérature contemporaine accueillant les monstres comme figures de la transgression qui, par leur é-normité, interrogent la norme dont ils s’écartent. Ces êtres à la fois fascinants et inquiétants hantent la littérature depuis les récits fondateurs de la mythologie antique. Arcan, à l’instar de plusieurs femmes auteurs, recourt au procédé de la réécriture de plusieurs grands mythes grecs dans Folle (2004) et À ciel ouvert (2007). Dans les deux récits, elle met en scène des personnages en fuite qui, face à leur destin néfaste, se métamorphosent en femmes-monstres et en hommes-monstres. Les personnages masculins empruntent des traits à Jason, Narcisse et Pygmalion, mais sont, par leur déviance sexuelle et leur propension à la domination, beaucoup plus monstrueux que leurs modèles antiques. Contaminées par la monstruosité des hommes qu’elles aiment jusqu’à l’annihilation de soi, les protagonistes des deux récits affichent certains traits de Médée, de Méduse et des Amazones, tirant parti de la puissance de ces figures nocives pour donner une leçon aux personnages masculins. Elles acquièrent ainsi de nouveau leur statut de sujet. Dans ce mémoire, il s’agira, par le biais de la mythocritique, des théories de la réécriture et de l’effet-personnage, d’étudier les causes, le processus et les effets du « devenir-monstre » des personnages féminins et d’examiner la reconfiguration de mythes antiques par Arcan. En s’intéressant à la greffe des mythes antiques sur les personnages arcaniens, au déplacement et au renversement des mythèmes caractéristiques des figures prédécesseures, cette recherche espère montrer comment Nelly Arcan dissèque les relations de couple qui mènent au « devenir-monstre » des partenaires. Il ressortira de cette analyse une vision apocalyptique du vivre ensemble, entre hommes et femmes, qui rejoue l’ancienne « guerre des sexes » que l’on croyait terminée. / Nelly Arcan’s body of work is in line with a trend in contemporary writing to represent the monster as a transgressive figure, which, through its own “e-normity,” steps out of the norm and questions it. Both fascinating and unnerving, the monster has haunted literature since the tales of ancient mythology came into existence. Following the steps of many women writers, Arcan rewrites numerous Greek myths in Folle (2004) and À ciel ouvert (2007). These novels narrate the stories of characters who transform into monsters due to their ill-fated destinies. The male characters are inspired by Jason, Narcissus and Pygmalion. However, their sexual deviance and tendency to dominate make them much more monstrous than their ancient models. Contaminated by the monstrosity of the men they love to the point of self-annihilation, Arcan’s female protagonists share some characteristics with Medea, Medusa and the Amazons. They gain power from these dangerous mythological figures to teach lessons to the monstrous males, thereby claiming possession of their own subjectivities. Using literary approaches such as mythocritique, theories of rewriting, and theories of character, this research will focus on the causes, processes and effects of the female characters’ “becoming-monster” and will study Arcan’s reconfiguration of ancient myths. Through an examination of the merging of these myths and an analysis of the displacement and upending of their distinctive mythemes, this master’s thesis hopes to show how Arcan dissects love relationships that lead to the “becoming-monster” of the partners involved. This analysis will bring out Arcan’s apocalyptic vision of co-habitation, a vision which re-enacts the war of the sexes that we thought ended long ago.