Beerendra PandeyKhanal, Bhim Lal2026-03-312026-03-312011https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/26123The novel, Rabbit Run, presents the utter failure of the protagonist in his family, social and professional life due to his irrational, irresponsible and lustful nature along with his helpless surrender before the domineering influence of women in his life. Rabbit frequently runs away from his family, wife, children and responsibilities. He is guided by whims, emotions and carnal desires without having any ambition, mission and destination. He not only abdicates his responsibilities but also cowardly pledges and begs for sexual intercourse, shelter and support from a part time prostitute, Ruth. He demeans himself by bearing all sorts of violence, abuses and humiliation from a prostitute and his wife just to get his sexual desires fulfilled at the cost of his masculine pride. The protagonist, instead of confirming male values, practices and traits adopts and exposes feminine traits being timid, emotional, weak and submissive. Since almost all forms of violence beginning from verbal through the physical upto the death crime have been committed by female characters, there is the reversal of traditional image of women as kind, tender and docile. In fact, the novel depicts the protagonist as an anti-intellectual hero who is in futile race being guided by sensual hedonism remaining away from the masculine traits of intellectual aspirations and social position.en-USRabbit runEnglish novelThesis