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Item Conflict between Desire and Responsibility in John Updike’sRabbit, Run(Department of English, 2006) Bhattarai, Punya PrasadThis research makes an intensive study of John Updike’sRabbit, Run. This novel shows the conflict between Desire and Responsibility of Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the protagonist. Rabbit, driven by instincts and impulses, gives too much importance to self-interest, neglecting the responsibilities to others. Rabbit goes to a prostitute, Ruth, for sexual gratification because he has grown disgusted with his wife, Janice, who is pregnant, alcoholic and smoker. Rabbit, who had the glorious past in his school days, now, leads a monotonous life. Rabbit runs away to avoid the monotonous life and revive the glorious past.Item Ethos of Masculinity in Nicholas Spark's The Notebook(Department of English, 2017) Chaulagai, Krishna KumariThis research challenges the meaning of sex in socio-historical background of man and woman. It reflects the problems of man in the contemporary period because of our misunderstanding and extension of feminism in Nicholas Spark's The Notebook. Both Noah and Allie have lust for their further life. In the beginning of their lifestory they have attachment with each other. They help closely but Noah presents a 'female masculinity' in the beginning of the novel. Noah shows heroic masculinity in the end of paper and bonds with Allie after being businessman. So, this research brings a concept of masculinity derived from Judith Butler, Cora Kaplan, Michel Foucault etc. to notice implication and valorize the condition of male femininity and female masculinity.Item Female Body in Social Incarceration in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian(Department of English, 2018) Aryal, KamanaThis research paper tires to inspect the brutalities endured by the protagonist, Yeong-hye, through the lens of body politics, when her body does not act in terms of the society’s norms and regulations in Han Kang’s novel, The Vegetarian. Her desire to transform into a tree resists fulfilling the demands of her husband, father, mother, brother-in-law, sister, hospital and many other. Her bizarre steps to enact her desire break every societal norm and solely allot her tortures leading her to the deathbed. As Yeong-hye dares to enact her desire, the patriarchal society stands as a thorny bar. Depending on the theory of body politics, this research paper explores how the body of the protagonist is tormented in order to stop her from accomplishing her goal because vegetarianism makes her desirous to transform into a tree. It expounds how Yeong-hye turns to be the dust in the eyes of the society when her body resists to fulfil its demands. The researcher investigates upon novel, The Vegetarian, with the support of theoretical insights from Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight, Feminism, Western Culture and the Body Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Michel Foucault’s Discipline And Punish: The Birth of the Prison and The History Of Sexuality. The paper claims how a society constructs discourse of female body and acts as a powerful organ to control over females.