Browsing by Subject "Social limitations"
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Item Existential Concerns in Taslima Nasrin'sFrench Lover(Central Departmental of English, 2010) Khanal, SantoshInFrench Lover, Nasrin presents the obsessive desire of modern women through the narrative of Nila, one of the characters and narrator of the novel. This study only focuses on the women's desire for freedom. Nila, Mithu, Danielle an other female characters searchtheir existence and challenge the established social norms by using freedom of choice. Nasrin examines the female characters who protest against social limitations by going against marriage bond and heterosex. For the sake of existence, they are ready tochoose anything. And that choice extends up to the suicide.Item Preservation of Dignity through Death in G.B. Shaw's Saint Joan(Department of English, 2007) Bista, Padam BahadurThe present research tries to explore the existential crisis in G.B. Shaw's Saint Joan. Shaw examines an individual in all aspects of humanity and encourages to protest against the law, the church and the social limitations. The protest extends up to the extent of rejecting life itself. Joan confronts a challenge to her autonomous existence. Life does not give her anything except making her participant in a losing battle. When all other possibilities are over, she accepts death to burn at the stake to prevent herself form being abused and affirms her existence.