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Item Coralin’s Metamorphosis into the Self-reliant Girl: Reading Neil Gaiman’s Coraline(Department of English, 2022) Shrestha, SrijanaThis paper studies Neil Gaiman's children fantasy Coraline based on identity formation of the title character, Coraline. Neil Gaiman, as an author of juvenile literature, presents the transformation–from reliant to self-reliant–of the pivotal character in this novella. Therefore, the researcher attempts to embody the interconnectedness of the transformation of the novella’s heroine and all the struggles she has to go through just to establish herself as a bold and independent girl who does not rely on any man, not even her father.In this regard, this dissertation asserts that Coraline is on the verge of becoming a new woman who fights with everything, as a man fights in most of the stories, to save her family. In order to examine the minute process of the major Character’s transformation and her search for the true self, the paper borrows the relevant insights from Erik H. Erikson’s theory of ‘psychosocial development’.As far as the dissertation’s argument is concerned, the researcher analyzes the text using some of the theoretical insights propounded by Erikson: Intimacy vs. Isolation, Trust vs. Mistrust, and Identity vs. confusion. As claimed by Eriks on, that each new stage builds upon the living experiences of the subsequent stages that are clearly observed in the life of Coraline as she involves in a perilous circumstances. Based on these three stages of psychological development the research paper explores the world of Coraline where the protagonist undergoes the surreal circumstances that insist her to explore the inner self so as to imbibe a tremendous transformation in her life. Keywords: transformation, existential crisis, identity, true self, existenceItem Existential Crisis in Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party(Department of English, 2011-04) Paudel, Yogendra RajNot availableItem Preservation of Dignity through Death in G.B. Shaw's Saint Joan(Department of English, 2007) Bista, Padam BahadurThe present research tries to explore the existential crisis in G.B. Shaw's Saint Joan. Shaw examines an individual in all aspects of humanity and encourages to protest against the law, the church and the social limitations. The protest extends up to the extent of rejecting life itself. Joan confronts a challenge to her autonomous existence. Life does not give her anything except making her participant in a losing battle. When all other possibilities are over, she accepts death to burn at the stake to prevent herself form being abused and affirms her existence.