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Item Critiquing capitalist ideology in Italo Calvino's the path to the Spiders’ Nests(Department of English, 2019) Kafle, Tilak PrasadThis thesis on Italo Calvino's The Path to the Spiders’ Nests examines how major characters' schizophrenic acts have the potential to subvert the capitalist ideology of Italian regime during the period of Second World War. It analyzes the novel from the perspective of schizoanalysis using ideas of Deleuze and Guattari's concept of schizoanalysis. Schizophrenic characteristics of the play display subversive politics with the radical potential to overthrow capitalistic ideals. In an attempt to resist fascist regime, Pin, Kim and Dritto attempt join partisan groups. In their acts, they become chaotic, disruptive and rebellious. They do not conform to the ideology of the regime. Moreover, Pin's childish acts whims reflect schizophrenic behavior as he imitates the activities of adult. Their innocent imitation proves to be revolutionary and their acts and desires lead them to a different world of their own. Thus, in their acts, they end up becoming split or schizophrenic personalities, which helps them cope with totalizing or repressive capitalist ideology of their society.Item A Study of Symbolism in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner(Department of English, 2018) Kafle, Tilak PrasadThe research work examines the symbols used in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner to explore the division among the two ethnic groups of people in Afghanistan namely Pasthun (Sunni) and Hazara (Shia) and the Russian interest over Afghanistan. The decade-long war resulted killing of thousands of people and the panic psychology in the citizen. Moreover, the research also depicts the dislocated identity of Asian immigrants in America. Since war trauma and the desire for freedom are the major themes of the novel, the story centres around explaining how the symbols used by the writer in the book have portrayed all these realities. Basically, the kite, the kite fighting and the kite flying are taken into the discussion for the study in the research. The problem of the study is that how the symbols used by the writer contribute for the establishment of his major ideas. For this symbolism has been used as a theoretical approach for discussion throughout the research.