In my diploma thesis I focused on social inequality and the position of women in Ivan Cankar's novels Hiša Marije Pomočnice, Na Klancu in Križ na gori. I briefly outlined the author's life, presented the novels and the contemporary Slovenian novel. Ivan Cankar's novels are known for being highly autobiographical, thus providing an insight into the author's experience of social conditions, the people who surrounded him and their hardships and problems, such as: poverty, social inequality, the struggle for survival, suffering, deprivation, unexpected deaths and so on. I have focused on the sociological aspects of the situation at that time, and I have paid the greatest attention to social and gender inequality, with particular focus on the disadvanteged position of women in society.
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