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Item Critique of Cosmopolitan Modernity in Atwood’s The Robber Bride(Department of English, 2018) Joshi, NeelamUtilizing the concept of modernity and gender as conceptualized by Janet Wolff, Rita Felskiand Bonnie Kim Scott, thisresearch project concentrates on the difficulties and crises upon female characters in Atwood’s novelThe Robber Bride. Most of the female characters in The Robber Brideare deviated from their cultural root and individual identity.They feel that the temptation to follow theWesternized thought has distorted the taste and attitude of the young generation. The main character of this novel Roz belongs to the class of handmaid’s fertile women who is forced to bear children for elite, barren couples and rich people. Roz forgets her real name, cultural identity and her own background being lost in the midst ofWestern technocratic world. She comes in metropolitan American city to searchforher better life, but she becomesa puppet in thehands of different males in the city simply because she is a woman.Though modernity promises about education, development, and betterment of humanity, it deteriorates Rozin the level of apuppetrather than enlightening her. Keywords: Modernity and the City, Cosmopolitan Modernity, Multiple Modernities, Public Sphere, Private Sphere,Flanuer, Flaneuse, DystopiaItem Critique of Cosmopolitan Modernity in Atwood’sThe Robber Bride(Central Department of English, 2019) Subedi, SrijanaUtilizing the concept of modernity and gender as conceptualized by Jenet Woolf and Bonnie Kim Scott, this research project concentrates upon the difficulties and crises upon female characters in Atwood’s novelThe Robber Bride. Most of the female characters inThe Robber Brideare deviated from their cultural root and individual identity. They feel that the temptation to follow the westernized thought has distorted the taste and attitude of the young generation. The main character of this novel Zenia belongs to the class of handmaid’s fertile women who is forced to bear children for elite, barren couples and rich people. Zeniz forgets her real name, cultural identity and her own background being lost in the midst of western technocratic world. She comes in metropolitan American city to search her better life, but she becomes puppet on the hands of different males in the city simply because she is a woman. Modernity deteriorates Zenia in the level of puppet despite enlightening her. Keywords: City, Dystopia, Flaneuse, Flanuer, Modernity, Women.Item Critique of Scientific Optimism in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games(Faculty of Art in English, 2017-08) Sharma, PradipNot AvailableItem Critiqueof Scientific Optimism in Veronica Roth’s Divergent(Department of English, 2018) Pangyani, SagarThis thesis explores the negative impact of science and technology in human life as depicted in Veronica Roth’s Divergent.By taking theoretical ideas on dystopia as conceptualized by Keith Moylan, this study focuses on how technologies under totalitarian goverenment have failed to be the bliss to man kind but turned into bane and deteriorated human condition.Focus sing on how Tris, the protagonist, succumbs to totalitarian government and takes journey through icy water, dark tunnels and strange spy chambers of dystopian state,the study unveils that scientific innovations enslave people and impoverish the life-world and if mishandled, hence humans should for see the fatal consequences of over reliance on them. Keywords:scientific optimism, totalitarianism, dystopia, deterioration,banalityItem Subversion of Utopian Optimism in Veronica Roth’s Allegiant(Department of English, 2017) Subedi, SunitaThis thesis entitled “ Subversion of Utopian Optimism in Veronica Roth’s Allegiant" explores the negative influences of science and technology in human life using the concept of dystopia coceptualized by Keith Moylan. In the novel advanced science and technology are misused by totalitarian government that has resulted into sense of loss, misunderstanding, maladjustment,identity crisis, and conflict.This novel centers on the theme of propaganda. It is a story about the political mechanism of unspecified American society. The protagonist of the novel is Tris .She is captive by totalitarian government without reason.After her failed escape attempt, she has been demoted to the lowest level of human captives.She is forced to kill her relatives in the name of purification. Throughout the rest of the novel, Tris suffers from hunger, fear,paranoia, and identity crisis. She becomes almost lost in the midst of totalitarian government. She takes journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and strange spy chambers of the world’smost mysterious dictatorship government. Through such portrayal,the novelist warns about the possible misuse of sicne and technology in totalitarian government to control and manipulate human beings. Key Words :Utopia, Dystopia, Totalitarian,Science , Optimism, Warning