Browsing by Subject "Female empowerment"
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Item Female Agency through Supernatural Power in Maurier's Rebecca(Department of English, 2018) Ghimire, GomaThis thesis analyzes the significance of the use of supernatural elements in Maurier's Rebecca. She presents as a horror though she was dead in man's eye. She visualizes her horror gothic for revenge of man's dominance and exploitation. She reveals in the solitude and interconnects man's behaviour interlinked with woman. As a protagonist, she represents the Victorian society. She shows the realistic behaviour and attitude of woman towards man. She fulfills the woman's coverage in the patriarchal society to resist social norms and values. By showing own gothic actions, Rebecca shows woman's empowerment in the then women's status and their dignity before and after life. She exists forever. This paper from gothic feminism finds the conclusion of the supernatural elements.Item Female Subjectivity in Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni's The Palace of Illusions(Department of English, 2015) Sapakota, NirmalaThis dissertation has explored female subjectivity based on Draupadi, the female protagonist of the novel The Palace of Illusions, in the light of Third-World Feminism. The novel is a rewriting of the famous epic the Mahabharata from Draupadi's perspective which has attempted to foreground her strength, agency, individuality, intellectuality, and the power. In the original epic, Draupadi is portrayed as a passive victim of patriarchy, whereas in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel, she is portrayed as a model of female empowerment and courage who establishes her self-identity by subverting the patriarchal boundaries and female stereotypes of the typical Hindu Indian society.Item Problematic Representation of Woman in Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and The World(Faculty of English, 2019) Paudel, ShantiThe research has analyzed Tagore's problematic representation of woman in his novel The Home and the World. At one level Tagore seems empowering women by subverting the female stereotypes in the context of Hindu patriarchal society. Raising the voice of equality and freedom through the novel he rejects the traditional values and expectation associated with women in the patriarchal society. Bimala, the protagonist of the novel, comes out of the traditional domestic world into the outside world where she involves in social and political activities as a man does. On another level, Tagore is not totally free from patriarchal norms and values while representing women characters in his novel. The novel also reinforces the beliefs and values of traditional patriarchal society by showing women characters as inherently inferior and vulnerable as if a woman tries to cross the boundaries of home, welcomes disasters. Similarly, if she tries to defy the assigned role, she will be destroyed at last. Woman cannot survive in the outer world. It is the home which safeguards women. Thus, the failure of female character like Bimala in the novel shows the deep-rooted concept of female inferiority in masculine writing particular and society in general.Item Resistance to Colonialist and Patriarchal Ideologies in Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda(Department of English, 2014) Sharma, BabitaThis research analyzes Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda as a Postcolonial Feminist Fiction, which fictionalizes the periphery of the main female protagonist Lucinda after the colonialism in the Australia. The fiction focuses on the gender and cultural discrimination of the influence of colonialism and resistance to the discrimination for their identical space. Lucinda suffers a lot from the patriarchy and cultural domination throughout the fiction. Her business, visit, love and freedom all are put against by the patriarchal society. Peter Carey’s Lucinda carries the rebellious act against it and ultimately destroys the forthcoming danger exposing the female power for the gender equality and representation. It conveys the sufferings from Lucinda’s mirror to such women and for the slow awakening in them for their resistance and identity. The fiction revolves round the periphery of the postcolonial and urges to follow the main structure so there is a lot of influence of postcolonialism as well as feminism. By using Postcolonial feminism as a theoretical approach it is exposing the role of subvertion and resistance of the suffered and dominated women.