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Item Animal Imagery as Social Critique: A Comparative Study of Volpone and Look Back in Anger(Department of English, 2011) Pokhrel, AbinashThe present research work attempts to prove how the use of animal imageries becomes a strong tool to criticize the contemporary society. It tries to find out the symbolic significance of animal imagery so as to expose spiritual degeneration of human beings. Ben Jonson in Volpone and John Osborne in Look Back in Anger try to reflect the vices and follies of the society where they were living. Both of them use animal images in their texts quite intensively. Though both playwrights’ main aim is to criticize the then society, they use animal images a bit differently. Jonson uses them for criticizing purpose whereas Osborne uses them for celebratory purpose, i.e. Jonson wants to make correction in the society, and on the other hand Osborne wants to escape from the society where people cannot live freely. The researcher has made compare and contrast between these two plays especially focusing on the animal imageries, which are the bases of social criticism.Item Failure of Clarissa Dalloway’s Self in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway(Faculty of English, 2012) Upreti, AnantaThis thesis on Virginia Woolf‟s Mrs. Dalloway explores the causes of the failure of Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway‟s self from the perspective of socialist feminism. It studies in detail why she kills her feminine conscience, and quietly accepts the existing social code of conduct. Furthermore, it also analyzes the consequences of the suffocating tradition where women are being treated as commodity, which Clarissa also in the novel cannot rebel and is incapable of establishing her self identity breaking the norms and values of the contemporary society. Due to the phenomenon of self-repression Clarissa strongly feels the lack of identity and belongingness. Like a fly trapped in a cobweb she is also trapped and pressed beneath the burden of superficial notion. Clarissa is aware that she cannot conquer the circumstances of the then society but still accepts the challenge for the creation of her own world beyond male domination. The research has shown that Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is characterized by the deadness of spirit. Due to self-repression, Clarissa strongly feels the lack of identity and belongingness. She has been compelled to repress her natural inclination, her wish to have a free space of her own. She cannot truly be Clarissa and cannot secure the space for her self as could cater to her fantasy. Thus, with the acknowledgement of reality, Clarissa concludes her life spiritually dead though physically she is alive which shows the failure of Clarissa‟s self.Item A Marxist Study of Ammaraj Joshi's A Night's Drama(Department of English, 2012) Dhakal, DilaramThis research work has made anattempt to analyze conflict between different social groups in the context of social, economic and historical context of contemporary society. The stories of this collection present the lives of poor people mainly women and village grown youths from different social status to show the social arrangements. This work examines how lower class people are made the mere dreamers in Nepal and the manner of capitalists who possess economic privilege. The death of poor and extinction of identity in capitalists' society is the major issue that generates the main ideas of these stories.Item Resonance of Freudian Psychodynamic Concepts in R. L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(Department of English, 2011) Laudari, KumarThis research work studies R.L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the psychoanalytical point of view. It explores the repressed psyche of the character which returns through the means of horror story. The fear about the future becomes repressed in the psyche of the main character Dr. Jekyll. He is a split personality; he embraces both good as well as evil qualities which are exposed in different conditions. People in a normal condition they seem good and gentle, and when they are intoxicated they snow their true identity i.e. full of cruelty and irrationality. The major character of the novel, Dr. Jekyll has two personalities: Dr. Jekyll (a good and professional physician) and Mr. Hyde (an evil and murderous character). Drug plays a major role to separate them from good to evil and vice versa. In the Freudian point of view these two distinct personalities of the same person representing two different aspects of human psyche i.e. conscious and unconscious. Stevenson by describing the split identity of the character portrays the tendency of repressing excessive desire in the contemporary society. They seem outwardly respectable, but inwardly are immoral and encompassed by dual characters like: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This is the psychic state that the research focuses on.