Browsing by Subject "Patriarchal values"
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Item Discursivity of Family Relations: A Foucauldian Reading of Gopal Prasad Rimal’s Masan(Department of English, 2012) Upadhyaya, Arjun PrasadGopal Prasad Rimal’s Masan reflects how inequality of privileges appears as normal in an ordinary Nepali family with males at the decisive roles, and females at the periphery. Helen performs herself accordingly with patriarchy because she has internalized the patriarchal ethos. In patriarchy, power creates that the powerless recapitulate. In Nepalese society males are in the position of power. They create certain images of women and of themselves on the basis of binary opposition. They treat female according to their self constructed images and discourse. That discourse works in the society as truth and all the social members believe that it is true, essential and natural. For instance,Helenone of the major figures of the play Masan internalizes the beliefs and value established by patriarchy. She accepts all her images and runs insearch of maternity to geta son. At this moment, her all activities show the internalization of patriarchy in the whole play, because she accepts all the patriarchal values as a kind of truth.Item An Exploration of Female Subjugation and Sense of Resistance in Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy-Man(Department of English, 2014) Giri, Mahesh ChandraThe present research on Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy -Man (1947) explores and exposes the pathetic condition of female during the partition of India. It focuses upon pathetic condition of female from which they get liberated at the end of the novel. In the novel, all the female characters including the protagonists Ayah and Lenny are dominated in the name of religion, sex, politics, culture. The reason behind their suppression is that, male values dominant society, where females are forcefully given such qualities. Third world women are dominated by this sexiest society but they tend to liberate themselves by revolting against patriarchal values. Ayah is a representative revolutionary character who revolts by ignoring 'Ice-candy- man' at the end of the novel. Finally, she gets freedom from the patriarchal clap-trap.Item Ironic Representation of the Female Power in Coelho's Brida(Department of English, 2011) Rai, ChomitraThe present dissertation seeks to explore the ironic representation of the female agency in Paulo Coelho's novel Brida. It attempts to show how Brida's resort to magic for her empowerment undermines her effort to challenge patriarchy. In the novel, Brida manages to challenge patriarchal values once she becomes a witch armed with supernatural powers under the guidance of two teachers of the magic and witchcraft: Wicca and Magus. It shows that Brida, as a woman, is not capable of challenging patriarchal values in reality. Therefore, her challenge to the patriarchal values through witchcraft and supernatural powers undermines Brida's own identity and agency as the woman.Item Tagore's Ambivalence towards Women: A Study of His Selected Short Stories(Central Department of English, 2014) Paneru, ShankarThird World feminism is one of the critical tools for representing women’s issues of the Third World developing countries because the Western Anglo- American feminism cannot represent the distinct experiences and problems of the non- Anglo- American women. The issues of the color and South Asian women’s issues are much distinct than the issues of the so-called First World women. Female characters of Rabindranath Tagore’s stories, being set in the Third World, undergo many distinct issues such as complexities of widowhood, ingrained Kulinism, early marriages and its repercussions, dowry and dowry related violence, age-old traditions and customs, and the issue of sexuality. Tagore’s ambivalence is noticeable in his representation of these female characters in his short stories. On the one hand, they seem submissive, emotional, docile, and the sheer victim of patriarchy. And, at the same time, they are represented as inspiring heroines.