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Item Exploration of an Authentic Self: a Study on Robert Zemeckis's Cast Away(Department of English, 2014) Rimal, Bijay PrasadThis project is based on the study of Robert Zemeckis’s Cast Away from the perspective of existentialism. It focuses on the protagonist, Chuck’s ceaseless struggle for his identity and freedom amidst the paradoxes and absurdities of life. Chuck as conscious man has different options in his life but he chooses to be a part of FedEx, a multinational company. Chuck’s choice leads him towards the different mode of life where he is destined to face his existential crisis. For the crisis and suffering of Chuck no one is responsible but Chuck himself. After the disaster, Chuck does not simply alienate from his family networks and companions of life but has also to separate from his fiancée, Kelly forever. But even in such numerous tragedies of life with full of anxiety, Chuck does not feel failure with the life rather he is always determined to confront with futile suffering. This is how Chuck understands the essence of life in the meaningless world which makes him an existential hero in real sense.Item Interrelation among Art, Artist and Society in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man(Department of English, 2015) Sukubhatu, Krishna MayaThis study analyzes A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from the perspective of arts and aesthetics. Arts and aesthetic capture human pain, pleasure, beauty, sorrow and the entire human senses and help human beings be immortal in this universe. Value of art and aesthetic is very high in nature that Joyce projects through the mouthpiece of Stephen who struggle for arts and aesthetic for whole life. This study traces the agony of the artist and his struggle to free himself. Stephen by the end of the novel creates aesthetic discourse. The novel is replete with ideas on art, life and literature. Stephen, the protagonist of the novel, can be assumed as aesthetic tragic hero. For Stephen, art offers an escape from the constraints of religion, family, school, society and country. Stephen's obsession with aesthetic theory indicates that, for him, art is an abstract idea. Unlike the abstractions of religion, however, the abstractions of art are tied to the emotions with which Stephen struggles. Stephen's philosophy of shit provides a clear instance of escape from cruel social reality into the ultimate code comfort of ethical self-satisfaction and aesthetic self-indulgence. Drawing upon this study enumerates ideas from the relationship among art, artist and the society. It focuses on Stephen's enrollment in University College, where he gradually forms his aesthetic theory and Stephen's distancing of himself from his family, church, and nation. Moreover, Stephen struggles to decide whether he should by loyal to his family, his church, his nation, or his vocation as an artist.Item Negation of Cultural and Moral Values in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms(Faculty of English, 2007) Niraula, Deba RajNot AvailableItem A Quest for Human Existence in Paulo Coelho's The Pilgrimage(Department of English, 2009) Paudyal, Umesh PrasadPaulo Coelho's The Pilgrimage fore grounds the main narrator's apparent spiritual journey which, in turn, delves into an existential journey of authentic being. Once the narrator has possessed a remarkable sword charged with indecipherable mystery, he happens to lose it. The loss of this sword throws him into the world of despair, desperation and despondency. To overcome the despair emerging from his hollow existence the narrator starts his journey to Santiago, one of the renowned centers of spiritual holiness where he regains his lost sword. The entire spectrum of his existential being shines brightly, making him aware of the authenticity of his own being and existence, once he regains his lost sword. Thus the present research work contends his journey as an attempt for existential quest and fulfillment.Item Quest for Liberation: An Existentialist study of Paulo Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die(Department of English, 2011) Rai, PrakashThis study attempts to explores the how Veronika quest her existence in her life in Paulo Coelho’s novel Veronika Decides to Die. Veronika a young girl of twenty four found herself as absurd because she could not solve the problems which she has faced. Veronika works as a librarian by day and by night carries on like many single women dating men, occasionally sleeping with them, and returning to a single room she rents at a convent. It is a life, but not a very compelling one. So one day, Veronika decides to end it. She decided to die because of the influences of existential philosophy. She reads the problems of her life and country and analyzes the ongoing event from the perspective of existentialism and searches the meaning of existing uncertainty and fear. Living in uncertainty and fear without doing anything is meaningless and she thinks the way to come out from the situation and being an absurd because there is no way to come out of the problem except death.Item Quest for Self-Discovery in The Zahir(Department of English, 2009) Yadav, Rajesh PrasadCoelho draws the picture of an imagined narrator who is indeed similar to the writer himself to a greater extent and conveys the philosophical message that life is uncertain and everyone undergoes distinct levels of thoughts and psychological transmission in order for creating and getting one’s human existence. The most powerful energy that makes one to exist with value, dignity, prestige, meaning, comfort, pleasure and harmony, is love and emotional attachment which indeed everyone requires as support for living. Furthermore, the instable and fluctuating stance of the narrator in the course of searching Esther, his wife left him and disappeared makes it clear that he is in the process of becoming and comprehending the sense of human life and its prominence in the family affair. After all, the mobility and keen quest for Esther and his self are focused in the sense that both of them are reciprocally concerned and affect each other. In the absence of Esther, his life proves worse than he has ever thought before and similarly in the absence of self identity, his life is futile and meangingless. On the whole the entire text, The Zahir carries on this philosophical content that implicitly precedes everyone to assimilate in life to create meaning of human existence.