Browsing by Author "Kafle, Subash"

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    Critiquing the Utopia of the norm: reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's the Idiot
    (Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2008-12) Kafle, Subash
    This research makes a study of interweaving issues of disability—instances of epilepsy and derision in the major characters, and the subjugation of Myshkin in Russian Aristocratic class, in particular – in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot. Together with investigating the ways in which Myshkin and Nastasya Filippovna are represented in this Russian text written at the high time of Russian aristocracy, principal focus has been to bring into light the Russian aristocratic culture that subjugates peoples who slightly disagree with the then social values. In particular, my attempt has been to scrutinize The Idiot that emerges as a ruthless commentary over Russian aristocratic culture. Whereas Dostoevsky chronicles the marginalized ‘abnormal’ voices on literary disability studies, the novel comes to put the characteristic features of Russian aristocracy in the pretext of so called disabled people’s degradation. This research follows the latest contributions on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work. Dostoevsky delves in the life of Myshkin and Nastasya Fillippovna to expose the sufferings and contingencies in that they had to carryout solely because of their so-called physical and psychological abnormality
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    Therapeutic Impact of Narrating Trauma in Mary, a Fiction and Maria or the Wrongs of Woman
    (Faculty of English, 2015) Kafle, Subash
    This research makes a study of Therapeutic Impact of Narrating Trauma in Mary, a Fiction and Maria Or the Wrongs of Woman.Mary Wollstonecraft, a leading feminist writer, has used her fictional writings as means of therapy to manage her trauma.The writings, which have a goal to lessen the pain of trauma, do not only document the trauma of Mary Wollstonecraft but also document the trauma of women of her society.The documentation of personal trauma in parallel to collective trauma has helped Mary Wollstonecraft to figure out the evil face of her society towards females. The relocation of trauma in sociocultural contexts of her time justifies the traumatic experience of women of contemporary society in many cases is imposed one.Her desire to locate her trauma in particular and trauma of her sex in general in sociocultural contexts of her time helps her readers to understand the society and its components as the primary sources for any woman to be traumatized. The continuous imposition and regulation of male’s ideology without considering the women in the society compels women to pass through various constructed events of trauma. Domestic violence, betrayal, miscalculation of emotion of women and mistrust in attachmentsare the result of indifference of the contemporary English Society towards women which constructa way for women to be traumatized. Mary Wollstonecraft, who becomes the victim of male’s cruelty and whose voice is continuously silenced using the social laws and social institutions,takes the help of writing to narrate, preserve, and manageher experience of traumas. MakingMary andMaria her mouthpieceinMary, a FictionandMaria Or the Wrongs of Womanrespectively, Mary Wollstonecraft transmutes her personal trauma in Mary, a FictionandMaria Or the Wrongs of Womanby making an appeal to make a bond among the victims of trauma to lessen the pain of trauma and to reform the society where they are living in.