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Item Desire, Repression and Multiple Sexualities in D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love(Department of English, 2022) Roka, BandanaThis thesis deals with the exploration of repressed desires from the perspective of Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender in Women in Love by D.H.Lawrence. This research questions in the thesis about how the gender is undone in the society and how gender is constructed. This thesis shows the homosexual men and the breakdown of the conventional rules and regulation made by the society. Maincharacters of the novel shows their struggle for the sexual drive, while they are not fully satisfied with their sex partners. While, Rupert and Birkin are homosexual, they fall in love for each other but they could not express feelings freely just because of the fear of the abandonment by the society. And Lawrence raisesthe question of visible alliances between the sexes, where the position of power and dominance often is not fixed but is negotiable and constantly in the process of revision. My thesis examines Lawrence’s experimentation with definitions and boundaries of public and private gender roles. It investigatesthe struggle of the Birkin and Gerald in their life by overcoming against all the homosexual’s problems in a traditional society. They did not want to show their feelings in front of the society, instead they hide their homosexual personality. Keywords: Homosexuality, gender, desires, sex, suffering, emotion.Item Portrayal of the Fragmented Self in Philip Roth’s The Professor of Desire(Department of English, 2007) Baral, PasupatiEvery human has two drives: an instinctual drive and rational drive. The former includes sexuality, impulses, desires, emotions; which is primordial, chaotic,and nature gifted. The later one includes reason, thought and controlling capacity, andit is ordered, logical and achieved through human efforts. Man has created his uniqueidentity through his reasoning capacity. The protagonist in the novel is pulled by his instinctual drive from one side and his rationality from the other side. The after math of this inner tussle is fragmentation in his self. He becomes a torn personality who suffers from identity-paralysis. Through The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth createsa supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious dramatization about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to maketruce between dignity and desire.