Literary Image of Margaret Thatcher's policy

Abstract

This bachelor thesis focuses on the era of the government of Margaret Thatcher and reflects it in the literary work Billy Elliot. The musical, used as a primary source for the analytical part, is defined and provided with the appropriate literary background. The thesis analyses the situation of British society at the time with an emphasis on social class and the situation of the miners' community and the depiction of the miners' strike of 1984-1985.