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Item Alienation in Merwin's Poetry(Department of English, 2008) Ghising, Tika RajWilliam Stately Merwin's poetry exposes the grim futile human existential struggle which heralds nothing except suffering, anxiety, despair and feeling of absurdity. The speakers heroically accept and continue their struggle throughout his life in order to maintain the glory of his survival but at the same time they embroil in the turmoil of violence, absurdity and the scarcity of life. Merwin's poetry also reflects the grim picture of human life during and after the war when people were victimized by restriction, suppression, domination, exploitation and over competition. Because of which characters demonstrate the sweet passion and strong desire for survival and self identity even within the pang and plight of life. Despite the characters' struggle for freedom and happiness they suffer from scarcity, absurdity and nothingness which showers pain and suffering that ultimately lead them into the realm of fragmentation, displacement and alienation.Item Celebration of Celtic Pantheism in Paulo Coelho'sBrida(Department of English, 2021) Gyawali, SunitaThis thesis explores the search of soul mate and freedom that the protagonist, Brida in Paul Coelho’s Brid aexperiences when she meets her boy friend Lorens, and her teachers Magus and Wicca. She learns the magic from her teachers as she believes in the supernatural powers and in the existence of God everywhere. Despite many challenges and hardships she continues her mission of meeting the soul mate that signifies the reincarnation of God in different manifestations. She is a representative character who stands for theCeltic people with the faith in the celebration of every moment everywhere in life. The study investigates into the novel to explore both philosophical and theological dimensions. The interaction among the characters such as Brida, Magus, and Wicca demonstrates the celebratory culture of Celts who freely enjoy life with strong faith in Jesus and Virgin Mary, the manifestations of God. The research uses Celtic spirituality as a lens to analyze the text and concludes that the characters portrayed in the novel seek for freedom to celebrate their life. Key Words: Spirituality, Celtic, Christianity, Freedom, Love, FaithItem Critique of Christian Rhetoric of Confession in Jodi Picoult's The Story Teller(Department of English, 2020) Rai, NabinThe major thrust of this research is the critique of the Christian rhetoric of confession in Jodi Picoult's novel,The Story Teller. Weber is an old Nazi soldier who is extremely repentant for his engagement in the discourse of anti-Semitism during the Third Reich. Bounded by professional and racial restrictions, he is involved in genocidal violence. He is an agent and perpetrator of the harsh practice of anti- Semitism. In the prime of youth, he was unaware of the outcome of his thoughtless activities. Onlyin the old age, he is awake to the pros and cons of his reckless choices. Guilt, repentance, and unconscious longing for redemption drive him ceaselessly when he approaches old age. His innermost longing heightens his faith in Christian precept of salvation via repentance and confession. But the outcome turns out to be totally contrary to him. The very confession of his past crimes and inhuman activities to his so-called lady friend digs his grave. Instead of witnessing the peaceful and blissful end of hislife, he has to face the fate of being arrested by that person whom he believed as the true friend. The very emphasis of Christianity on faith as the sovereign force of liberation is turned upside down. Actually, it is the void, the emptiness and weakening of humanistic values that underlie entire spectrum of human existence. This issue is tested from the vantage point of moral nihilism chiefly propounded by Friedrich Nietzsche. Key Words: Nihilism, Christianity, Confession, RedemptionItem Deconstructingthe Bible inThe Rainbowby D. H. Lawrence(Central Department of English, 2019) Timilsina, UmaThis thesis analyzes how D. H Lawrence treats Christianity in his novelThe Rainbow.His language in this novel is imbued with scriptural language of the Bible and myths. This novelbelongs to twentieth century and reflects the spirit of that time when religious faith wasdeclining. Lawrence's letters to his friends also reveals his religious vision and his trust ofreligion especially Christianity. This research makes a modest attempt to discover how Lawrenceis influenced by Nietzschean philosophy 'God is Dead', especially through Ursula, as an agentand freedom seeker from religious life. From the discussion on Lawrence's own philosophy of'Blood Consciousness and the Nature’, this research concludes that Lawrence is notunderestimating Christianity or rejecting it's doctrine, rather he is modernizing the Bible andcreating his own philosophy for this religion. This analysis was performed through thesignificance of the terms like Church, Sunday school, Christ and Religious World. Bychallenging the deeply rooted religious thought, Lawrence rejects the church and tries toestablish its place with the church of genuine human relationship. In response to this narrowinterpretation of the novel, the present research tries to examine the literal application of thescripture by questioning the duality of Sunday world and weekday world.Key words: Christianity, bible, marriage, church, resurrection, weekday world and Sunday worldItem Fictionalizationof History: DismantlingThe Da Vinci Code(Department of English, 2007) Manandhar, Suminaan Brown'sThe Da Vinci Codeis a historical fiction. By fictionalizing the history that looks like truth the novel has deliberately been made the historical operation that is drawn from the real history of earlier Christianity and Bible. It is a fiction which is based around a man who discovers a code that reveals the true identity of the Holy Grail to be nothing more than the very bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Thus, the ideas are about the corruption in the Catholic Church, politics of Constantine, the union of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and the mortality of Jesus Christ. The title of the fiction alludes to the hidden messages allegedly concealed in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci. By fictionalizing the historical events Dan Brown puts forward his view that history has been written by the "winners." Also, by presenting a controversial fiction through the representation of Christianity as a false religion, Brown suggest that controversy is good to inspire discussions and debates that will ultimately lead to a more solidly defended faith.Item Goethe's Faustas a Satire on Christianity(Department of English, 2007) Aryal, Bhoj RajGoethe's Faust lacks self-knowledge and understanding of the world. Life as a whole is full of bitter experiences for him. He runs for sensation to minimize the frustration and to satisfy his strong sexual urges. Worldly comfort and pleasure occupies his mind. So, he is in conflict from within. Therefore, his love for God and spiritual quest is in a question. He is practically a spiritual failure. Dishonesty in love proves him nothing more than a criminal. Faust is guided by passion and greed in every step of life. He is an adulterer. He is cruel because he betrays Gretchen. He behaves like an anti christian. But, Faust's soul gets entry to the heavenly kingdom and unites him to the God despite his cruelty. Sinners should confess before the God for salvation but Faust never does so. Goethe, through his protagonist satirizes on Christianity that is deviating itself in practice from its ideology.Item Influence of Science on Christianity in the Tess of the D’Urbervilles(Department of English, 2007) Poudyal, Ram ChandraThe conflict between science and religion is not a strange thing and it has become a common issue in almost literary writings. Many literary figures who believe on religion and establish their writings on the religious aspects are found astonishing to see the unusual impact of science on their firm faith. Thomas Hardy, the nineteenth century English novelist,has seriously observed this sudden influence of science in Christianity and successfully illustrated in his novel Tess of the D' Urbervilles. Going through the text no reader can ignore Hardy's love and faith to Christianity on one side and also the influence of science and technology he observes on the other. The publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859)helps Hardy not only to make the clear distinction between Christian religion and science but also makes him aware of the conflict between the two diverse disciplines. Consequently, Hardy takes these two areas as the enemy of each other and he reveals them with enough evidences from his day to day experiences of human life in his novel. Although the issuelike the conflict between science and religion of this research appears quite common and obvious in this post modern era where science has been reached to its climax, but it is also essential to grasp the hidden gravity of the text. In the form of a research and no good researcher can avoid this underlying issue. Therefore, the quality of this research lies on the pattern which takes the pain to find out a genuine and deserving issue out of a common phenomena, which in fact is a major characteristics of a perfect research.Item Interface between Colonialism and Capitalism in Chinua Achebe'sThings Fall Apart(Department of English, 2021) Rokaya, Sunil KumarThis thesis examines an interface between colonialism and capitalism in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. This interpretive study showsalink between colonialism and capitalism.In order to examine this connection between colonialism and capitalism,this study drives theoretical insights from NgugiWaThiongo,Jan AartScholte,Karl Marxand Timothy Mitchell. Thisresearch finds thatcolonialism wasanarmof capitalism andat thesame time colonialism wasan early formof globalcapitalism.Though, theBritish government extractedraw materials from differentcolonies for collecting capitals. Thecolonizers’intentionwasnot onlytorule butdestroy the native way of lifetoexpandtheircapitalist ventures.Item Ironizing Nihilism in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away(Department of English, 2007) Shahi, Dhana BahadurThis research on the two novels,Wise Blood(1952) and The Violent Bear It Away(1960) examines how O'Connor ironically exposes the twentieth-century nihilistic attitude in the face of growing materialism. The heroes of the two novels reject the principles of Christianity in the earlier parts of the novel, but they finally end up embracing faith in God. The heroes in the novels who rebel against the dogmatic notions of religion in the earlier part of novels finally realize and surrender to the religion.O'Connor ironizes the twentieth–century nihilism and posits belief in God.Item Irony in Updike’s Rabbit, Run: A Kierkegaardain Reading(Central Department of English, 2011-02) Sapkota, Kamal PrasadJohn Updike’s Rabbit, Run exemplifies Kierkegaardian mastered irony. As an exemplar of this type of irony, the novel presents the two sides of issue and then leaves this paradox unresolved so that the intended meaning emerges as a play of contradiction. Updike organizes the moral debates about Christianity and evokes the ambiguity about sexuality and Christianity, paradox of God, faith, immorality and value of goodness. Kierkegaardian dialectical vision of mastered irony contains and maintains a species of controlled dialectical tension between the contradictory materials. The message of any ironic work is not represented by one or the other side of the dialectical issues; nor it is produced by the facial blending of the two; rather it comes out from the dynamic interplay of the unresolved thematic tension. Adopting this method, Updike dramatizes a dynamic play between the thematic tension raised in the novel that he calls the yes-but quality of his writing. All of the Rabbit's aesthetic yes has its own ethical but. Yes side of Rabbit's innerfreedom enables him to run and his social identity says but. Rabbit's search for something ultimately ends in nothing. Being a Christian minister, Eccles does not believe in anything. He represents the restrictive religio-socio sides of life. Such yes-but provides a paradoxical quality in the novel and all the conflicts and ambiguities are left unresolved.Item Irony in Victorian Liberalism: A Study of Trollope’s The Warden(Department of English, 2011) Khadka, BinitaTrollope's The Warden ironically unearths the sway of liberalism in Victorian England and its negative effect on the city of Barchester. The irony lies in the objective of Bold which turns into opposite direction at the ending. People like John Bold and the bedsmen of Hiram's Hospital try to exercise liberalism with hope of getting benefits from it without caring its negative result. Because of over exercising freedom and liberty , it not only ruins the life of Mr. Harding, but they also overcome to pathetic situations. this ironical turning in the disillusions the hope of liberalism is false like the chimera. The chimera of liberalism victimizes Septimus Harding, John Bold and the bedsmen until they cease to follow it. In this light, the concept of liberalism is not always good and beneficial - it is ironical. The whole foundation of novel is the attempt to get the promise of liberalism and its ironical tone because of the futile hope of the characters like Bold and the beds men. The ironical device has been enacted in this novel to portray the real, bitter and somehow negative effect of liberalism existed in Victorian society.Item Parody on Christianity in Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle(Department of English, 2008) Bhusal, Ramesh ChandraThe research is held to see how Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle chops out the convention of classical dramas through the dealing of epic theatre concepts. Another significant issue that is raised in the research is, use of communist overtones to parodize Christianity by using the Christian images, assumptions and sacraments. As Brecht seems to undermine Christianity by the Christian images, assumptions and sacraments, he seems to have been questioning on the existence of God nor he sees any types of roles of the God to the individuals lives rather Brecht dramatically celebrates individualism to the world of materialism