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Item Coetzee’s Ethical Response to Human Treatment of Animals: A study of the Lives of Animals, Elizabeth Costello and Disgrace(Department of English, 2007) Shrestha, Sundar RajIn the long run of human civilization human beings have provedthrough unbelievableachievements with theutmostuse of rationalitythat they are the best creatures in the universe. But, it isalarmingthat they pay no heed to the existence of rest of the beings. Though it is true that they have created a different sort of identityof their ownamong the beings, theyare not the only one. They have no right to suppress and deny therights toothers because they are the‘best’. Unlike the rest of the writers and animal right activists, J.M. Coetzee, in his texts, has tried to remind the human beings of their duty and responsibility towards theotherbeings through his sensitive characters. By departing from the other writers and advocates of animal rights, he urges all the human beings to treat the animals ethicallybecause they are also living beings like us. In short,Coetzee wants all the human beings to treat the animals with love, affection,sympathy and kindness that should come from their inner heart.Item Existential Redemption in Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice(Department of English, 2010) Pant, ShyamThis research work on Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice explores the choices that all the human beings make and the effects these choices make on their way of life. It tries to study that in an uncaring world where contingency rules, if it is possible in any way to redeem oneself without the agency of God, if one is guilt stricken because of one’s own choice, a silly mistake done just for fun. Taking into context the narrative, Edward the protagonist feeds drug induced sandwich to his best friend, Mark who has never used drugs before. In the hallucinatory fit caused by the drug, Mark jumps down the window and dies leaving his soul guilt stricken, suddenly crippled. In the course of his journey towards redemption and thereby understanding his existence, he experiences the world around, full of paradoxes of love and hate, hope and despair, anger and joy, disgust and pleasure. However he ultimately learns to be hard working and responsible for his actions; he learns to forgive and to forget and to care about others thereby finding meaning in his life. Was this his existential redemption?