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Item Critiqueof Scientific Optimism in Veronica Roth’s Divergent(Department of English, 2018) Pangyani, SagarThis thesis explores the negative impact of science and technology in human life as depicted in Veronica Roth’s Divergent.By taking theoretical ideas on dystopia as conceptualized by Keith Moylan, this study focuses on how technologies under totalitarian goverenment have failed to be the bliss to man kind but turned into bane and deteriorated human condition.Focus sing on how Tris, the protagonist, succumbs to totalitarian government and takes journey through icy water, dark tunnels and strange spy chambers of dystopian state,the study unveils that scientific innovations enslave people and impoverish the life-world and if mishandled, hence humans should for see the fatal consequences of over reliance on them. Keywords:scientific optimism, totalitarianism, dystopia, deterioration,banalityItem Representating the Voice of the Subalterns in Ha Jin's Waiting(Department of English, 2013) Tiwari, Durga PrasadHa Jin’s Waiting present research on explores projects the issue of subaltern consciousness. Even in the era dominated by the communist totalitarianism, subaltern people have struggled hard to raise their voices of dissent and disagreement. In Waiting the subaltern characters like Lin Kong and Manna fall prey to the restrictive and exclusionary policies of the communist dictator. While the upper class elite people freely enjoy the divorce rights and other additional packages of individual liberty, the subaltern people like Shuyu and others are subjected to the indescribable condition of suffering. Subaltern youths are so brainwashed and manipulated that they are forced to remain in the condition of psycho-sexual retardation. Although Kong being a doctor, his desire to divorce his wife Shuyu is not completed. Being an elite Dr. Kong is from a underprevelidged group so his voice is not listed and were all the characters here resembled subalterns group. Kong’s passionate attachment for Manna and his subsequent impotence after his marriage with her are twin evidences to show the fallout of vicious communist propaganda. The voices of the subaltern people are silenced. But Ha Jin manages to convey the subaltern concern and anxiety by using the perspective of subaltenrity.