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Item The Individual Voice Against Authoritative Discourse: The Polyphony in Henrik Ibsen's Play An Enemy of the People(Department of English, 2009) Adikari, Punya PrasadHenrik Ibsen's play,An Enemy of the People, though written in nineteenth century, appears to advocate the ideas which are, in fact, supposed to be the outcome of the latest postmodern theories of the twentieth century. In this regard, Ibsen's portrayal of countering perspective between the major characters Dr. Thomas Stockmann and the Mayor is analyzed as the expression of multiple voices. The play's portrayal of existing conflict between Dr. Thomas Stockmann, the protagonist, and his brother Peter Stockmann (the Mayor) representing domineering authorial voice seem irreconcilable as Dr. Thomas Stockmann is determined to expose the truth about the bad water systems of which common people are unaware while Peter Stockmann, liberal press and manipulated majority are not in favour of the exposure of the truth. Such a challenge and disruption of domineering ideology byone individual and also the exposure of the perspectives for seeing the truth really characterizes the text as a polyphonic work.Item Politics of Polyphony in Morrison’s God Help the Child(Department of English, 2017) Sapkota, ShalikramThis thesis examines the polyphonic and dialogic nature of God Help the Child. The central objective of thesis is to observe the stories of six main speakers including Morrison herself. The protagonists share their different versions of realities belonging to the similar events from their own position. They mock of how they are being suffocated due to colorism, individualism, and commodification of human values. This thesis has been studied in the light of Bakhtinian notion of polyphony, dialogism,and carnival. I also discuss the concepts of Sue Vice on the comprehensive discussion of carnival. The main finding of this paper is to help the reader understand that in order to address the sentiments of the multicultural society; any oeuvre should not represent the voice of one group rather it has to represent plurality of consciousness by injecting multiple voices. So,people living there will identify themselves in it. It helps to build better humanitarian world. It becomes useful to the artist, sociologist, leaders, planers and developers if they are going to make some constructive programs in the multicultural society.It inculcates the significance of polyphony and why including the sentiment of multiple voices is essential.