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Item Contradiction Within The Rover: A Gestic Feminist Study(Faculty of Art English, 2012-10) Rana, SugribThis research analyzes gender and sexuality subverts patriarchal ideology. It would be to engage dialectically with the patriarchal Victorian Society. It has been chosen Gestic theory as a theoretical tool to examine how women have been victimized in the English society, it means a performance, that makes visible contradictory, interactions of the text, theatre apparatus and contemporary social struggles. It focuses on the dialects or contrast created by patriarchal society. Protagonist Hellena is forced to become a nun, but she is more interested in men than God. However, sister Florinda is interested love with the English Colenel Belvile. While their father wants, Hellena shall go to convent, but she wants experience of love and marriage before going to convent. Florinda shall marry a rich ancient Don Vinetio. The researcher mirrors the conflict between a patriarchal ordering of the world and the needs and desires of an individual woman, in an inversion of conventional women opposing the patriarchal system because they have been victimized in the structure of patriarchal society.Item Golding’s the Pyramid: A Study of Class Hierarchy(Department of English, 2006) Rai, Tara ManiWilliam Golding in his novel The Pyramid explores the conflict prevailing in the English society as an outcome of class hierarchy. The title The Pyramid itself refers to the pyramid of social hierarchy. This is because of the economic status; the conflict goes on and on. The struggle occurs between upper and lower middle class. The characters like Bobby Ewan stands for upper middle class whereas the characters like Oliver stands for the lower middle class. There is the tug of war between these two representatives of two distinct classes. Each of them struggle for the existence. It is the essence of Golding’s The Pyramid,which has been discussed in detail in this research with a number of critical opinions that claim Golding as the most socio-realist novelist.Item Jim Dixon as an Anti-hero in Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim(Department of English, 2006) Sharma, Hari PrasadKingsley Amis' Lucky Jim features the status of the protagonist, Jim Dixon as an anti-hero because he lacks heroic ideals and virtues. Therefore, it is necessary to show contrast to Aristotelian typology of hero as set forth by Aristotle. Then the research leads to resemblances of anti-heroic character traits with the attributes of Picaro, yet he is devoid of other essential qualities like immorality, self-centrism, anger and inaction of Dixon regarding his activities and relationships with the people around him. So, the focus of this research is to label Jim Dixon as an anti-hero thereby providing a necessary expanse of clarification.Item Sewell’s Black Beauty: An Allegorical Representation of Subalterns(Department of English, 2015) Joshi, Manoj KumarThis research concentrates on how the plight and predicament of horses represent the subaltern conditions of neglected, excluded and subjected groups of people. In Sewall’s Black Beauty, horses are subjected to severe conditions of overwork, exhaustion and underfeeding. The owner and the caretaker of stable do not heed the pathetic voice of the horses. They do not bother to know if the horses are thirsty and hungry. They use horses only at the time of work. This plight and predicament of horses refer to the pathetic and painful plight of underclass workers who are subjected to exclusion, ostracism and dehumanization. The subaltern people who are unrecognized and excluded into the mainstream society are forced to remain silent and subdued. As ginger and black beauty cannot express their pathos and anguish, so is the plight of the underclass groups of people. The foremost target of research is to examine how elitism of the English society foster and fabricate the ideal of a loyalty and how this notion becomes the tool of exploitation of underclass subaltern characters. The excluded people have an intense inner sense of realization about how much they are dehumanized and excluded. But they are not able to give expression to their thoughts and agony. In Sewall’s Black Beauty, the names of horses, who allegorize the groups of ostracized, excluded and oppressed people, are subjected to the severe conditions of oppressions, exclusions and ostracism. Subaltern figures are indoctrinated by leading figures of mainstream society of England. The privileged people of England have no regard and concern with the excluded people on whose contribution and sacrifice they have to depend.