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  • Motive of the Fall in the works of C.S. Lewis \"The Great Divorce\" and \"The Screwtape Letters\" and the novel of T. Pratchett and N. Gaiman \"Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch\"

Motive of the Fall in the works of C.S. Lewis \"The Great Divorce\" and \"The Screwtape Letters\" and the novel of T. Pratchett and N. Gaiman \"Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch\"

Student: Zhulanov Evgenij

Supervisor: Ekaterina Fomina

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2024

Due to the recent TV adaptation of C. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia (1950), as well as the novel of T. Pratchett and N.Gaiman Good Omens (1990) the oeuvre of these writers has gained in popularity. Existing studies have mostly focused on the role of religion in the novels leaving an important gap that the current study attempts to fill, more precisely these studies did not consider the motive of the Fall as a universal concept that refers to the human entity itself. This study aims to identify the motif of the Fall in the oeuvre of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman using the novel Good Omens as example and discover the influence of C.S. Lewis’s work on the creation of the Good Omens. The research combines biographical, comparative, textual methods of analysis, intertextual analysis in addition to close reading method.The present study expects to detect common motives of the Fall in each of the novels separately as well as find interconnection between works of Clive S. Lewis Screwtape Letters (1941) and The Great Divorce (1944) and the novel of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Key words: motive, the Fall, religion, Christianity, interconnection

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