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Item Ambition for Power as Cause of Tragedy in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar(Central Department of English, 2011-03) Saud, Dammar SinghThis research seeks to present William Shakespeare’s historical play Julius Caesar as tragedy. The tragic end of each character in the play Julius Caesar is result of their ambition for power. Much of the play’s tragedy stems from the character’s desire for power, neglect of private feelings and loyalties in favor of what they believe to be the public good. The play is struggle of what it meant to be ‘Roman.’ Both Brutus and Caesar are stubborn, rather ambitious and inflexible characters ultimately suffer fatally for it. The tragic end of the protagonists in this play Julius Caesar is tragic flaw in its latent form and political ambition in manifestation. Brutus’ rigid faith upon republican norms and Caesar’s over confidence on his strength lead them to their own doom.Item Aristotelian Hero: A Study in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart(Department of English, 2006) Subedi, Binod KumarThe present research work basically focuses on presenting Okonkwo, the protagonist of the novel as an Aristotelian Hero. Throughout the novel we can see Okonkwo guided by the ambition to succeed in everything. He is so obsessed by success that he finds his father a complete failure in his life. He wants to win laurels in whatever tasks that he gets involved in. Like the protagonist of a Greek tragedy, however, Okonkwo carries within himself the seeds of his own destruction. He is secretly plagued by the fear of failure and of weakness. He is desperate to prove that he is better than his father, Unoka. Okonkwo, therefore, strives to e everything his father was not: strong, manly, prosperous and respected. This obsession to succeed in life takes him on the path of ultimate downfall which ends with his suicide.Item Fate in Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd(Department of English, 2010) Mizer, Sher BahadurFatalism centers human feeling and sentiment towards the negative view of the life or the dark side of human beings. It,instead of fulfilling human desires, suffers them heavily andtakes no heed to them. It shows that human beings,in their lives,play a perpetual hide and seek game with divine power till human beings come to realize their defeat and give up their happiness. Human beings, throughout their lives endeavor towards one end, destiny towards another. Finally, it is destiny which decides what is to happen. Man cannot modify the will of destiny but vice versa is improbable because it has something hidden sense of inevitability which is out of reach and control of human beings. In the novelFar From the Madding Crowd,Hardy’s characters are shown as controlled byunforeseen forces. When they desire one thing but they cannot get it and remain unfulfilled. When the characters wish to get something, chance and coincidence diverttheir efforts to opposite directions.Through his characters the novelist tries to showthe event taking place in their livesare the outcomesof divine will rather than individual will. Hardy’s philosophy on fatalism leads us to note that lives of all human beings and characters presented in this novel are dominated and conditioned by the fate beyond human imagination and thinking.Item Matter of Justice and feeling of Tragedy in Leo Tolstoy's “Three Questions”, “The Bird”and“God Sees the Truth, but Waits”(Department of English, 2017) Bhandari, DeepaThe research work based on Leo Tolstoy’s three stories “Three Questions”, “The Bird” and “God Sees the Truth, but Waits” explore the issues of matter of justice, tragedy and suffering. Justice is a relative term not absolute because it depends upon the type of fairness that one feels or in which culture one is born or grown up. It is a spiritual feeling in terms of tragedy that one experiences. Therefore, it is incomplete to define justice alone. Similarly, tragedy and suffering have negative connotations that are not desired by anyone as they provide tortures to human beings. However, justice cannot be measured if there were no tragedy and suffering. The story of “Three Questions” directly or indirectly deals with tragedy, justice and suffering. The king does not understand the importance of work or human value until he experiences himself. He realizes that the suffering that he got after helping the sage and tragedy of about to be killed by the visitor provides him to have right justice. “The Bird” gives similar relation of justice, tragedy and suffering. The boy does not understand the value of justice that his mother reminds until the bird dies because of suffering caused by the boy. The last story “God Sees the Truth, but Waits” brings the same theme of justice, tragedy and suffering. Tragedy occurs to Ivan when he is blamed of murdering a merchant, he undergoes suffering by being imprisoned for twenty-seven years and he gets justice when the real murderer confesses at last. Therefore, they always come together in the society whether people realize or not.Item Revitalization of Classical Art Form with Reference to Mourning Becomes Electra(Department of English, 2007) Chand, MaheshThe present research is the study of tragedy inMourning Becomes Electra. It mainly focuses upon the revitalization of classical art form caused by employing the classical techniques and theme pattern which are inherited within the artistic world of drama. It analysis how modern psychology has replaced the classical version of fate as the root cause of human sufferings. It suggests the struggle of modern man against the psychological force lurking beyond the conscious world. The modern man often appears to be helpless puppet in the hand of the malignant power because of the conflict between his body and self. This very strong passion of love and hatred makes the terrible creature and ironically the most tragic and non-repulsive end of Lavinia, the protagonist of the play. She is morally stronger than the ordinary man. So, she has strong sense of duty to search justice for her father by getting punishment to her mother and protect the honor of Mannons and her real life situation pull her in different directions and divides her within herself. This complexity of thoughts and emotion prompts to the agonies of hell in her life and 'pity and fear' on the audience.Item Unconventional Tragedy in an ton Chekhov’sthe Seagull(Department of English, 2009) Khatiwoda, PhanindraManiThe Seagull, Anton Chekhov's play, depicts the picture of a normal character, Tireplev Constantine; a figure of non-heroic figure having capacity of meaningful struggle. Treplovsuffers fromproblems in his ambitions to accomplish any meaningful goal. His repeated suicide attempt is because of his failure in his career as a writer and also because of his failure in love with Nina. He is the victim of outside exigencies of duty and frustration. Like modern hero, Trepllev is the victim of over ambition, self-alignments and frustration and non-heroic death.