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Item Deep Ecological Consciousness in Majid Majidi’s The Color of Paradise(Department of English, 2017) Rawal, ParvatiThis research work focuses on the issues of the inter-relationship between organism and ecosystem in Majid Majidi’sThe Color of Paradise (1999). The protagonists of the movie are guided by ecological awareness and evoked their sense of love and empathy to nature through their empathetical deeds. This ecological consciousnessgives intensive insights or convey long term deep messages to the people who are anthropocentric regarding their everyday activities. The study examines the issues of the inter-relationship between human and nature throughout the film. The characters devote themselves for the welfare of others and are engaged so seriously in order to protect the non-human creatures that most of thepeople generally ignore. This research addresses the importance of empathetical sense or ecological awareness to avoid global ecological crisis. In order to analyze the text, the ecocritical study with reference to the philosophy of deep ecology from the perspective of Arne Naess, George Sessions and Bill Devall is used as the theoretical tool in the research. By using the theory of deep ecology the research gives the message that all human and non-human life in nature has equal intrinsic worth and renunciation of materiality and adoption of ecofriendly notion is inescapablefor welfare and happiness.The Color of Paradise presents deep ecological insights in the form of visual art that the protagonists of the film through their empathetical deeds extends ecological awareness against anthropocentrism.Item Montag’s Self-Awakening and Quest for True Happiness in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451(Faculty of English, 2013) Prajapati, Durga DeviThis thesis mirrors the technological world where people have no interest in books, nature and human relationship. The firemen of this time are not paid to protect the people from the dangers of fire but to burn all the books to ashes. Montag, the protagonist of the novel, adores his job as a firefighter. He was proud of himself as he lights books on fire. After meeting with Clarisse, his happiness crumbles away and finds a profound void inside. For the first time, he lets himself to be aware of the problems of the world and his own unsatisfied desires of knowledge, philosophy and intimacy. He realizes that he doesn’t want to live in the world without literature. Montag, with the help of Faber and Ganger’s group, looks for answers and fulfillment in the forbidden realms of history, philosophy and literature. Thus, Montag starts to realize books are essential because people will be ignorant without books. He goes from conforming with society to rebelling against the said rules. We must read and think to survive and it is not possible without books and a society that runs on ignorance and mere pleasure can’t survive. Reading can provide us the real meaning of our existence and true happiness. It can provide us solace from existential problems. The power gained from reading is priceless as it expands our knowledge and awareness.Reading also stimulates our creative imaginations and can take us back into history and days gone by; it can also give us insight into now, the future and the unknown. On the other hand, reading can give our mind a much needed escape from the stresses and worries of everyday life which helps us to remain happy.Item Resistance to Double Marginalization of Female in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea(Faculty of English, 2012) Bhattarai, Mamtahis thesis is a study of some displaced Caribbean and Italian American women examine identity within a literary tradition.Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea has been the object of several postcolonial and feminist critical readings. Taking those interpretations into account, this paper attempts to focus on female oppression based on two protagonists, Antoinette and Rochester. The apparent dichotomies male/female, black/white, sanity/madness,rationality/unconscious are exasperated and result into the ghosts of womanhood, madness, blackness and magic through which he represent his wife. Antoinette’s psychological evolution, on the other hand, is seen as a growing self- division into those artificial polarities, until in the end she finally accepts her inner inescapable and positive complexity. Such complexity is seen as the principal upshot of the novel, in which an emotionalized in narrative blurs the boundaries and reveals the manifold nature of personalities and situations.This is identified the causes of the protagonists’ displacement, and analyze the actions she takes to make herself heardina tradition that has formerly silenced her. The protagonists, with one exception, enter an unhealthy marriage which further pushes her into a marginalized space.Ultimately, she is not only labeled “Other”because of her ethnicity, but also because of her gender.Item Tradition versus Modernity in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease(Faculty of Art in English, 2014-04) Dhungana, Hari KrishnaThis research work, “Tradition versus Modernity in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease” is about Nigerian born characters’ adaptation of new culture and its effects in his life. The immigrants, Obi Okonkwo and Clara, after their migration to England, are unable to remain in their pure identity. This research paper explores elements that indicate to Achebe’s back up of the difference between African and European ways. No Longer at Ease examines the dissolution of modern urban environment which is contrasted from the idea of rural purity and stability. Achebe’s position remains between tradition and modernity, and the desire to retain traditional values and motivation to recognize changes and adaptations necessary for survival. This research attempts to apply Peter Childs as a theorist and his famous essay 'Modernism' as a methodological tool for my thesis. Loss of Faith, cultural exhaustion, questioning towards reality, disinterestedness and nothingness, immorality are some of the terms which is searched in this project. Thus, this research attempts to apply on the theoretical perspective of Peter Childs: Modernism to Achebe’s No Longer At Ease.