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Item Alienation and Escapism: An Existential Study of Walker Percy's The Moviegoer(Department of English, 2009) Paudel, Tulasi RamThis study on Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer focuses on modern man's alienation in America. In the novel, the protagonist, Binx Bolling suffers from severe self-alienation which results from disintegration of his life in modern American society. He then resorts to the fictitious world of movies. As he watches movies, the impersonal images on the screen seem to offer him vision into the purpose and meaning of his own life. For him, watching movies becomes watching life and watching life becomes living life in the real sense. Thus, Percy shows Bolling alienated from society and lost in fictitious world of movies to expose haunting sense of present decadent capitalistic values and the fragmented self of modern American manItem Escapism in Jack Kerouac’s On The Road(Department of English, 2010) Rana, Yagya BahadurThis thesis focuses on Escapism in Jack Kerouac’s On The Road.Written after the social turmoil of the Great Depression and World War II, the novel explores the feelings, ideas, and experiences of restless, idealistic youth who yearns for something more than the bland conformity of a generally prosperous society. The novel focuses on the travels of two young men who crisscross the United States in search of adventure and excitement. The main characters celebrate their life by using their freewill and ignoring all their responsibilities the root such carefree nature however, lies in their escape from society and their failure to adopt with the hard times.