Browsing by Subject "Individuality"
Now showing 1 - 5 of 5
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item Critique of American Dream in Franzen’sThe Corrections(Department of English, 2018) Joshi, Ganesh DattThis thesis explores the issue of the Failure of American Dream in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections as represented by the central character, Al Lambart in particular and other characters in general. Circling around the longing of Al Lambart for better life and prosperity the study exposes how he becomes tragic figure reckoning into nothingness and hollowness of American Dream. Deploying theoretical insights related to capitalistic ideology and American Dream, the study reveals how individuals intoxicated by the passion of material prosperity happen to face sever anxiety, alienation, fragmentation, and decay of family values. Keywords: Materialism, Individuality, Liberalism, Spirituality, Dysfunctional.Item New Woman’s Resistance from Margin in Selected Stories from Stephanie Forward’s Dreams, Visions and Realities(Department of English, 2020) Giri, PabitraThe present research paper makes a literary investigation upon the Selected Stories from Stephanie Forward’s anthology of stories Dreams, Visions and Realities, authored by the late Victorian and early modernist women writers.It argues that the selected stories reflect feminist resistance during Victorian and early modern time. In order to achieve it, these stories employ the fictional persona of the leading female characters, who are portrayed in their constant struggle to resist against the prevalent patriarchal imposition of traditional gender roles and are in the quest of their own individuality. Likewise, the paper further explores the characteristic of new woman in the female characters namely Calixta, Thyra Flowerdew, Annette Browning, Josepha and Vanora whose nonconformist, modern, unconventional, independent, self-asserting and self-willed lifestyle vehemently resists the set of the conventional code of gender roles for their individual identity. For strengthening the argument that the selected stories demonstrate the resistance of women for their individuality, freedom and independent being, the researcher borrows theoretical insights from the theory of resistance from various critics including Michelle Foucault accompanied by the theoretical notion of New Woman and Judith Butler’s concept of gender as performativity along with Louis Tyson’s interpretation of gender roles. The paper concludes with the findings that the contemporary social and political transformations encouraged the transition in the women’s gender consciousness beyond the essentialist patriarchal notion of masculine and feminine roles. Key Words: resistance theory, new woman, gender consciousness, individualityItem Quest for Female Identity in Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Sharma, ArchanaNadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter moves around the protagonist Rosa who wants her autonomous self and independent identity. It focuses on the main character Rosa who travels towards France and enjoy her sensual pleasure by ignoring own originality. And eventually she returns with the awareness of the importance of her attachment with her society with whom she cannot escape and sustain. The basic aim of this research is to analyze that an individual identity is always relational one .It focuses that the identity is changeable, and our notion of identity is greatly influenced by cultural, political and economic phenomena.Item Quest for Identity and Self in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora(Department of English, 2018) Neupane, DeepaThis paper explores the quest for identity and self of the protagonist in the novel. It analyzes the text from the perspective of African-American Feminism. Corregidora is a neo-slave narrative written by Gayl Jones. Neo-slave narrative is a contemporary narrative that often deals with issues related to slavery. It depicts the violence of sex, rape, incest, and trauma. The protagonist of this novel, Ursa Corregidora is suffering from the identity crisis. Her longing for making identity and struggle to escape the burden of her past enforces her to search for her identity. Because her matrilineal line has a very haunting and troubled past of slavery. Her ancestors were brutally abused by the slave master. Ursa was victimized by her marital relationship. Sexual violence of her first husband Mutt makes her very sad, whereas her second husband Tadpole turns out to be a cheater. She falls from stairs and has a hysterectomy, which makes her sterile. She has lost her sexuality and her real self. However, she wants her life to be different from her matriarchal line. She decides to stay far from her familial story, which always hinders in her way. She chooses blues as her self-reflecting source but later on reunification with her first husband makes her complete self.Item Subversion of Conventional Gender Roles in James Joyce’s Selected Stories from Dubliners(Central Departmental of English, 2019) Thapa, Mangal BahadurThe present research paper analyses how James Joyce in Selected Stories fromDublinerssubvertsconventional gender roles. It claims that Joyce’s protagonists and their actions, behaviors, attitudes and personality as a whole virtually challenge the long-standing heterosexual celebration of traditional gender roles that prevailed at the turn ofthe twentieth century Ireland. It further investigates how the ongoing political, religious and social transformations that spread across Ireland in the late nineteenth and early Twentieth contributed to break the conventional gender roles. Being a witness to the contemporary transformations, Joyce documents the breakthrough that refuted the continuity of hegemonic power distribution between males and females. The research concerns withthe liberation and empowerment of female from the limited traditional roles. The paper incorporates the theoretical insights from Gender Studies in order to historicize the gender hegemony of Ireland’s patriarchal structure. It takesJudith Halberstam’s notion ofFemale Masculinityand Judith Butler’s notion of Performativity of gender to show how Joyce’s characters, especially female characters remain non-conformist to the conventional gender roles for their new social identity. It contends that Joyce suggests the potentiality of women’s independent individuality in the face of modernity. Inthis way, the paper concludes with the finding that Joyce’s portrayal of characters, especially female Dublinersas new women destabilizesdiscursive gender stereotypes under the influence of political, religious and social transitions in Ireland during the early twentieth century. Keywords:female masculinity, male femininity, new woman, individuality, subversion of gender roles, freedom