Browsing by Subject "Female identity"
Now showing 1 - 11 of 11
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item Ambivalence of Female Identity in A Woman of Substance(Central Department of English, 2012) Adhikari, Suresh KantaBarbara Taylor Bradford’s first novel, A Woman of Substance, a family saga, characterizes the hypnotic life of Emma Harte. This is the story of a young girl, a woman, a mother and a successful businesswoman. She is the index of an extraordinary matriarch who establishes her position by fulfilling her high dreams. She becomes prosperous in wealth but is vacant in terms of love. She realizes that endurance is better in life than of pursuing the revenge hastily. This thesis argues that the author has tried to prevail the feminist view through her story which ultimately becomes the victim of the social and cultural condition of the patriarchy. For example, Bradford gives great importance to a man’s name and lineage, with the character Edwina choosing the illegitimate father’s name, because of his social class. After completing her vendetta of sixty-plus years, Emma has achieved her economic independence and freedom. This is perhaps the most telling example of the protagonist’s ambivalent position that Bradford chooses to instill in Harte all the stereotypical qualities of successful men. With her success, she must have been a satisfied and a identified woman, however, despite the success, she still yearns the male's role in her life and as head of the household. She has realized herself as a lonely and unhappy person and is her vain pride which leads to the unnecessary family feud.Item BelBibaha: Celebration of Female Identity in Newari Culture(Department of English, 2019) Shrestha, LunaThis research analyses the rituals of BelBibaha of Newari community. There are lots of rituals followed by Newari people among them BelBibahais such a ritual which empowers women, free them from the so called notion widowhood of the society. It is a ritual which accept s the female identity and her existence. This ritual teaches people to value females.Though the women of third world countries are subjugated institutionally, some rituals in Newari culture which support females to establish their own identity as well as help them to make safe position in the society. BelBibahain Newari culture is such ritual which is symbolic of the celebration of cultural self of the Newari people. It is analyzed with theoretical ideas of Victor Turner, Elizabeth Bell's symbolic and ritual theory. It is very old tradition but also it is against the present orthodoxies of widowhood.Item Female Royalty and Oppression in Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies(Department of English, 2013) Lamichhane, ArjunBring Up the Bodies is key literary document of British royal palace in the sixteenth century, which captures king Henry VIII's oppression over his wives because of their failure to give birth to male heir to secure Tudor line of England. So, this project revolves around the issue of Female Royalty and Oppression, even though females are full of royal facilities. Though, the female characters in the novel belong to the royal family and apparently have access to unlimited wealth and power, they are the victims of patriarchy. Bring Up the Bodies ends with Anne's execution. Henry bring special executioner from France and he slices her head off with a long sword. Anne and Katherine are full of money, power, and post. But, their identity is under crisis, because of Henry's activities. He is male and representative of patriarchy. So, it explores one of the most frightening and mystifying episodes in English history, the destruction of Anne Boleyn.Item Liberation Conscience in Leena Yadav's Parched(Department of English, 2022) Kandel, RitaThe main thrust of this thesis is to show how the sense of self-discovery and independence comes into the mind of the protagonists Bijli, Lajjo, Janaki and Rani in the movie Parched as they undergo different types of unequal treatments on the basis of gender. Indian society is a patriarchal society where women are taken as commodity and their agency is not perceived. But these female characters become aware of how patriarchy misbehaves them. Bijli is used by her boss in order to earn money. Janaki's father sells her in 4 lakhs; Lajjo is stigmatized as barren women whom her husband uses to fulfill his daily necessities and Rani is compelled to suppress her desires and compelled to live her whole life as child-widow. Their psyche revives in order to challenge the social setting. Consequently, they deny what patriarchy says in order to get rid of all kinds of injustice that have been exercised upon female civilization for last many decades in Indian continent. They are fed up with the patriarchal codes and conducts and thus challenge it. They can control over their own body and mind in A Room of One's Own. Submissiveness, docility, fragility, and feebleness are attributes women reject in favor of self-exploration and emancipation as feminism envisions. Keywords: Self-exploration, liberation, female identity, submissiveness, patriarchal ideology.Item Liberation Conscience in Leena Yadav's Parched(Department of English, 2022) Kandel, RitaThe main thrust of this thesis is to show how the sense of self-discovery and independence comes into the mind of the protagonists Bijli, Lajjo, Janaki and Rani in the movie Parched as they undergo different types of unequal treatments on the basis of gender. Indian society is a patriarchal society where women are taken as commodity and their agency is not perceived. But these female characters become aware of how patriarchy misbehaves them. Bijli is used by her boss in order to earn money. Janaki's father sells her in 4 lakhs; Lajjo is stigmatized as barren women whom her husband uses to fulfill his daily necessities and Rani is compelled to suppress her desires and compelled to live her whole life as child-widow. Their psyche revives in order to challenge the social setting. Consequently, they deny what patriarchy says in order to get rid of all kinds of injustice that have been exercised upon female civilization for last many decades in Indian continent. They are fed up with the patriarchal codes and conducts and thus challenge it. They can control over their own body and mind in A Room of One's Own. Submissiveness, docility, fragility, and feebleness are attributes women reject in favor of self-exploration and emancipation as feminism envisions. Keywords: Self-exploration, liberation, female identity, submissiveness, patriarchal ideology.Item Liberation Conscience in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street(Department of English, 2018) Bhetwal, AmritaThe main thrust of this thesis is to expose how the main protagonist, Esperanza is influenced by economic condition of the contemporary era. Conflict occurs in crisis and suppression. Since women are deprived from rights; right of property, rights of freedom, rights of decision making and all. Esperanza also faces various crises, difficulties and has inside and outside conflict, struggle to ride form suffocation that is given by patriarchal society. Throughout the novel, Esperanza seems to be aware of patriarchal codes and conducts. She deliberately rejects and fights against all the patriarchal norms and values descended since last many decades in Mexican-American society. She seeks freedom from poverty and from suppression of male. After realizing liberation is possible by changing the perception and emotional status, instead of changing place; she herself directly rejects marriage proposal and makes aware of Alicia not to get marriage rather continue her university level education which would become helpful living life with prosperity. She follows the way of Virginia Woolf as shown in A Room of One's Own; she also demands the house where she strictly prohibits the ownership of male. At last, she makes the writing as the way of liberation of Mexican-American women in American gender-based society.Item Quest For Female Identity in Anita Rau Badami's Tamarind Mem(Department of English, 2008) Bhatta, ShaileshworiThis research explores a female’s quest for identity in Third World context. Here, the female protagonist, Saroja, is portrayed as a frustrated woman confined in the traditional norms of society and as a woman having erratic nature. Saroja is fed up and exhausted with the society which doesn't let her to create her identity. Even after her marriage, she realizes unsuccessful because of her husband's uncommunicative, unaffectionate and dominating nature. So, after the death of her husband and daughter's maturity, she breaks the conventional pattern of society by opting for unconventional tour of India to assert her individuality, emancipation and free wish. .Item Quest for Female Identity in Coelho’s The Witch of Portobello(Department of English, 2011) Rai, Ram DhanPaulo Coelho's The Witch of Portobello provides quest for women's independent identity in the newly built Europeon society. It also portrays women's struggle for freedom and autonomy which is possible but not so easy. Coelho, through this novel, tries to expose the women's power to overcome the boundaries created by patriarchal authority. He seems to provide women's own authority to make themselves free from the biased norms and values of the patriarchal ideology. Athena, the protagonist of this novel challenges patriarchal norms and values and fights throughout her life for her freedom and autonomy. Patriarchal society tries to make her subservient towards the norms and values of male authority, they force her to move in the path created by them but Athena struggles against the biased attitude and exposes her own way to move which the patriarchal society doesn’t accept. Though she is blamed as witch, she moves forwards with her own values and ultimately becomes the martyr for the women's dignity and self-identities.Item Resistance Against Patriarchy: Emerging Concept of New Women in Stephanie Forward's Dreams, Visions and Realities(Department of English, 2019) Paudyal, Bishnu RajThe main issue of this study is to analyze the emerging concept of new women in the selected short stories "The Mandrake Venus" by George Egerton, "A White Night" by Charlotte Mew and "Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story" by Olive Schreiner collected in an anthology, Dreams Visions and Realities edited by Stephanie Forward. In these stories characters like Venus, Ella and Jannta resist patriarchy and appear to be New Women. The main concern of this study is to analyze how these characters resist patriarchy and how writers of these stories project them as 'New Women'. Concept of new women has been used as the theoretical tool for this study. Female power, virtue and intelligence and self-exploration are the main subject matters of stories and the characters resist patriarchy by using their self- power, virtue and intelligence. Through the characterization of Venus and Ella, Egerton and Mew project the emerging concept of new women and explore the strength of women. Likewise, Jannita, female protagonist of Schreiner's story sacrifices herself for the sake of self- recognition and searches her identity in her family as well as in her society. In this way, the study scrutinizes the three different stories written by different writers and show how the concept of new women developed during nineteenth century Europe with reinterpreting, exploring and sacrificing the feministic issues.Item Rise of South Asian New Women in Shobhan Bantwal's The Sari Shop Widow(Department of English, 2014) Sharma, Tika RamThe present research explores the idea of feminism in Shobhan Bantwal’s novel which depicts the emergence of revolutionary women of Indian patriarchal society. Her novel deals with the day to day life experiences of women where women are confined in the certain boundary of their house. In the society the so-called superior class males make rules, norms and values and behave accordingly to repress the females. This research shows how the South Asian Women are creating their new identity blurring the lines and limitations that chained their existence within domestic arena made by the male chauvinistic society. In the present era, females are challenging against such domination and deprivation by the means of free sex, free drinks and economic independent. As the women in the South Asian society are restricted in each and every opportunity, this novel reveals the same idea. And the concern of my research is to explore such South Asian women who are rising up as the new women revolting against patriarchy and colonizers. Novel of Bantwal, though deals with the different issues like hybridism, globalization, diaspora, psychoanalysis, etc., postcolonial feminism along with the searching new identity of women in foreign land occupy the central concern on which the research is based upon.Item Woman's Quest for Identity in Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark(Department of English, 2007) Timalsena, RajuThis present reseach focuses on the protagonists's ceaseless effort to find her identity. During the course of the novel, Kate Brown undergoes a series of changes, in other words, in her encounters with the men different identities are manifested. She is always in search of a stable identity in the patriarchal society throughout the novel. But it is proved that patriarchy prevails everywhere. However, she persists in her effort to obtain her identity.