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Item The Protagonist in Ibsen’s The Master Builder:Psychoanalytical Reading of the Fall(Department of English, 2007) Subedi, KhagendraBrought up in a God-fearing home environment, Halvard Solness repudiates any discharge to his hostile impulses for the fear of violating God’s will and keeps loyal to His service. But the fear of such repressed impulses generates in him the displaced anxiety manifested in his fear of the younger generation. Beset with guilt feeling and anxiety disorders, he automatically takes refuge in neurotic needs like power and affection with the view of getting reassurance against his anxiety. However, these needs are impractical and incompatible, which help generate emotional dependence and complying attitude. Moreover, such a defenseless state obviously marks Solness’s fall from his character and professional status accelerating further the need of self- retribution. And, since death instinct remains dominant in the background, he unconsciously succeeds in fulfilling his wish to jump down the tower and take his own life.Item Sexual Repression in Ibsen's The Master Builder: A Freudian Perspective(Faculty of English, 2006) Phuyal, Komal PrasadNot availableItem Treatment of Neurosis in Anita Desai's Cry the Peacock(Department of English, 2006) Chhetri, Rabindra Kumar PaudelCry the Peacockis a story of psychological disintegration of a young wife who murders her husband. Maya, the central character of the novel is an intense young girl obsessed by the childhood prophecy of disaster. According to prophecy either she or her husband will die during the fourth year of their marriage. Maya's suffering emanates from her essential struggle to make her relationship meaningful with her husband and desire to experience life with all pleasure. Because of her failure to establish afulfilling relationship, she inhabits a world full of morbid, fears and turns neurotic. Maya's sensitive nature makes her alienated character in the novel. At last, she kills her husband by proving the prophecy, a true. The titleCry the Peacock symbolically represents the agonized 'cry of Maya' and her desire for life of involvement. In the novel, Anita Desai has been very artistically presented the disturbing portrayal of an individual experiencing life and love.