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Item African American Women’s Quest for American Dream in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the sun(Faculty of Art in English, 2012) Adhikari, RebatiAmerican dream is neither the dream of particular people nor limited within the particular region. It is beyond the boundary of race, class, gender or religion.It allows any one that has an aspiration, a desire, a yearning, to carry out the individual dream into reality. Only it needs motivation and hard work. Fore fathers of America fought for freedom and equality as American dream. Their dream was to end the racial discrimination and to save their human value. Along with the time, the concept of American dream did not only limit within the dream of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. It began to give more emphasis on Material prosperityespecially after the Second World War. It also made positive and negative impact on those who used to be marginalized previously and in present too. Africans immigrants were mostly influenced by the so called American dream; African American women were not also untouchable. But they were unable to realize their dream practically due to their race and the attitudes made by whites. Additionally black women were more victimized in comparison tomen; they had to come up with the triple oppression of class, race and gender to realize their dream. It has been selected the play A Raisin in the sun to make study on the American dream of African American women of 1950s. Inthis thesis, it has been portrayed the real condition of immigrant black women, their dreams, their struggle with family and society and their difficulty to attain their dream through the three women characters of the play such as Lena, Beneatha and RuthItem Critique of Individualism in Saroyan’s Hello Out There and Williams’s Lord Byron’s Love Letter(Central Departmental of English, 2019) Timsina, PujanThe major thrust of this study is to examine how the notion of individualism and the knowledge of growth are called into question in Saroyan’s Hello Out There and Williams’ Lord Byron’s Love Letter respectively. In Hello Out There, Photo Finish is already involved in a charge of mounting sexual assault on a woman who is supposedly a promiscuous lady. Believing in the charge leveled against him, police in Texas imprisons Finish. In prison, Finish implants in Emily’s mind the impractical and pointless dream of escaping from prison and going to San Francisco. In Williams’ Lord Byron’s Love Letter, it tells customers in their salon that once Lord Byron had loved the grandmother when she had visited Greece in the prime of her youth. Actually, it was a wrong statement that the grandmother was loved by Byron. It is just a hoax or trick to make money by telling customers that the grandmother was once the beloved of Byron. The sort of individualism and progress they embody is a bogus one. Only when the matron and her husband run away without paving, the spinster and the grandmother are aware of how customers have seen through their fake and fabricated story. The researcher uses the theory of critic of individualism by using the theorist such as Alan S. Williams, Herbert Hoover, Lawrence Bobo, Mennell. Stephen and so on. Key Words: Individualism, American drama, self-deception, fragility and irrelevance, subversive, commercial endeavorsItem Self-Psychology in Eugene O'Neill'sMourning Becomes Electra(Department of English, 2009) Jha, ShiddharthThe present thesis titled "Self-psychology in Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra" covers the leading psychological problems of twentieth century America. O'Neill has recorded in a powerful way the plight of men and women, and their struggling with self-fragmentation, suicidal frustration, alienation, violence, and addictive behaviours. O'Neill's characters are leading the life of unfulfilled desire and fractured families. Their self-cohesion is assaulted by world wars, drastic distinction between race and social class and weakening of supportive familial ties. Their fractured and fragmented selves lead them to the state of destruction, where almost all the characters are either killed, or committedsuicide or prisonedthemselves till death.