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Item Liberation Conscience in Leena Yadav's Parched(Department of English, 2022) Kandel, RitaThe main thrust of this thesis is to show how the sense of self-discovery and independence comes into the mind of the protagonists Bijli, Lajjo, Janaki and Rani in the movie Parched as they undergo different types of unequal treatments on the basis of gender. Indian society is a patriarchal society where women are taken as commodity and their agency is not perceived. But these female characters become aware of how patriarchy misbehaves them. Bijli is used by her boss in order to earn money. Janaki's father sells her in 4 lakhs; Lajjo is stigmatized as barren women whom her husband uses to fulfill his daily necessities and Rani is compelled to suppress her desires and compelled to live her whole life as child-widow. Their psyche revives in order to challenge the social setting. Consequently, they deny what patriarchy says in order to get rid of all kinds of injustice that have been exercised upon female civilization for last many decades in Indian continent. They are fed up with the patriarchal codes and conducts and thus challenge it. They can control over their own body and mind in A Room of One's Own. Submissiveness, docility, fragility, and feebleness are attributes women reject in favor of self-exploration and emancipation as feminism envisions. Keywords: Self-exploration, liberation, female identity, submissiveness, patriarchal ideology.Item Liberation Conscience in Leena Yadav's Parched(Department of English, 2022) Kandel, RitaThe main thrust of this thesis is to show how the sense of self-discovery and independence comes into the mind of the protagonists Bijli, Lajjo, Janaki and Rani in the movie Parched as they undergo different types of unequal treatments on the basis of gender. Indian society is a patriarchal society where women are taken as commodity and their agency is not perceived. But these female characters become aware of how patriarchy misbehaves them. Bijli is used by her boss in order to earn money. Janaki's father sells her in 4 lakhs; Lajjo is stigmatized as barren women whom her husband uses to fulfill his daily necessities and Rani is compelled to suppress her desires and compelled to live her whole life as child-widow. Their psyche revives in order to challenge the social setting. Consequently, they deny what patriarchy says in order to get rid of all kinds of injustice that have been exercised upon female civilization for last many decades in Indian continent. They are fed up with the patriarchal codes and conducts and thus challenge it. They can control over their own body and mind in A Room of One's Own. Submissiveness, docility, fragility, and feebleness are attributes women reject in favor of self-exploration and emancipation as feminism envisions. Keywords: Self-exploration, liberation, female identity, submissiveness, patriarchal ideology.Item Resistance Against Patriarchy: Emerging Concept of New Women in Stephanie Forward's Dreams, Visions and Realities(Department of English, 2019) Paudyal, Bishnu RajThe main issue of this study is to analyze the emerging concept of new women in the selected short stories "The Mandrake Venus" by George Egerton, "A White Night" by Charlotte Mew and "Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story" by Olive Schreiner collected in an anthology, Dreams Visions and Realities edited by Stephanie Forward. In these stories characters like Venus, Ella and Jannta resist patriarchy and appear to be New Women. The main concern of this study is to analyze how these characters resist patriarchy and how writers of these stories project them as 'New Women'. Concept of new women has been used as the theoretical tool for this study. Female power, virtue and intelligence and self-exploration are the main subject matters of stories and the characters resist patriarchy by using their self- power, virtue and intelligence. Through the characterization of Venus and Ella, Egerton and Mew project the emerging concept of new women and explore the strength of women. Likewise, Jannita, female protagonist of Schreiner's story sacrifices herself for the sake of self- recognition and searches her identity in her family as well as in her society. In this way, the study scrutinizes the three different stories written by different writers and show how the concept of new women developed during nineteenth century Europe with reinterpreting, exploring and sacrificing the feministic issues.