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Item Exploration of Unconscious in Norman Mailer's The Deer Park(Department of English, 2011) Kunwar, DipendraNorman Mailer’s The Deer Park profligates the characters such as Eitel, Elena, Lulu and Sergious driven by the pleasure principle that germinates from the unconscious level of human psyche representing Id factor. The characters search for the perfect sexual partner since they are most of the time guided by their repressed desires of the unconscious so they swing from one person to another in the quest of complete sexual satisfaction and pleasure. But they never get into that position which foregrounds the situation of the characters’ repressed desire that always calls for the fulfillment of the ‘lack’ in terms of sex and sexuality. Since they never achieve that psychological ‘lack’ of permanent pleasure through sexual intercourse, they suffer from being unstable and dissatisfied that result into their traumatic experience of sex and sexuality in this novel.Item Narrativization of Traumatic Experience in Sidney Sheldon's Tell Me Your Dreams(Department of English, 2014) Kafle, Aditya SamratSidney Sheldon's Tell Me Your Dream deals with the traumatic experiences undergone by three female characters; Ashley Patterson, Toni Prescott and Alette Peters. All these three female characters are haunted by the fear of being chased by an unidentified murderous man. Ashley screams in work cubicle when several dots on her computer screen merge and looms at the image of a murderous man carrying a knife. Toni Prescott's heart pounds convulsively at the utterance of word doctor. Ashley cannot sleep comfortably at night on her bed because she knows that someone has intruded into her room to rummage her lingerie ward. Alette is prone to manic depressive phenomenon. She is torn between the temptation of artistic pursuit and the inclination to live a sequestered life. For the most part, Ashley’s own disordered psyche and Steven Patterson’s leering glance are accountable for the degradation of the psychic condition of the protagonist. As she reaches adulthood, her father interferes into her private matters. He could not tolerate to see Ashley befriending smart and intelligent boys. Worst of all he killed those boys who loved her. The pugnacious behavior of her father and the lingering traces of sexual abuse paralyze Ashley traumatically. She collapses into fear, nightmare and disordered psyche.Item Politics of Suicide in William Styron's Sophie's Choice(Department of English, 2010) Rimal, PradipWilliam Styron’s Sophie’s Choice revolves around the death wish of Sophie, its central character. Sophie is a beautiful but fragile Polish Catholic, and is living under the horrible past of ghastly experience of the World War II. Sophie shares a flat with a fiery Jewish intellect, Nathan who abuses her verbally and physically because she is obsessed with the feeling that she deserves the same. Stingo, the narrator and a freelance writer by profession, is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, Stingo arrives at the dark core of Sophie’s past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and the essence of her terrible secret when she was forced to choose between two of her children. Sophie then let die her physically challenged young daughter in exchange of her son and self. This horribly painful decision has engulfed from leading a meaningful life, and the only final solution as ‘self-killing.’Item Ravi Thapaliya’s Echoes of Pain: A Study of Torture and Trauma(Department of English, 2011) Thapa, KumarThis thesis examines the issues of torture and pain in Ravi Thapaliya’s Echoes of Pain. The novel presents the acts of torturing, being tortured, its immediate effect on both torturer and the tortured and the final resolution. However, it ends in the form of reconciliation allowing the characters to live their normal life. In fact, through owning up everything and speaking out everything before one another, they work off their trauma and prepare themselves to lead the normal life. Thus the writer has used the well planned resolution at the end of the novel giving it a happy ending. Through the discussion of pain and trauma and the illustration of the way to come out of them unscathed at the end, the novelist provides much food for thought to the readers who are interested in the study of torture and trauma.Item Recapturing the Trauma of Partition of India: A Reading of Manto's Short Stories(Department of English, 2009) Neupane, MohanThe partition history of India carries the traumatic experience of sectarian violence which even has been the indigenous phenomenon of India. Independence brought with it the trauma of the country's partition which made millions homeless and brought in calculable misery in its wake. As several creative writers who move round on the literary battlefield of partition, Saadat Hasan Manto's stories also deal with psychosis of divisiveness, of dismembering, the rupture with the past and unprecedented violence of absurd dimensions,trauma and even death. Besides depicting the deep pangs of partition, Manto brought to the forefront the lasting unspeakable psychic pain of the sufferers' to the present as 'trauma'.Be they the characters of" She is Alive","A Lump of Cold Flesh","The Last Solute"or "Three and a Half Annas", the life of the sufferers' portrayed by Man to leaves one shocked and scattered. Not even the Indo-Pak conflict on Kashmir escaped the master's attention. "The Last Solute", "Toba Tek Singh", are his tribute to the comradeship between the Indian and Pak armed forces of those days and the long-lasting haunting images of these episodes are the outcome of the psychic trauma.Item Remembering the History of Pre-partition and Post-Partition Violence in Husain’s Basti(Department of English, 2010) Acharya, Megha RajHusain’s Basti attempts to explore the traumatic experience and effect faced by uprooted people in post-partition period in Pakistan. The painful experience of Zakir is the real experience of all migrated people. Most of the Muslims’ desire of ideal state plays the vital role to establish a sovereign state Pakistan where they hoped to get pleasure, prosperity and happiness. But in post-partition period, they become unhappy and restless due to the continuous violence. That makes Husain and other fellow Muslims live in trauma and memory of lost harmony. Memory of the harmonious past develops their longing for the home which they have left after the partition of India. With the partition of India, they lose their peace, harmony and integration forever. They are unable to adjust culturally, economically and politically due to lack of harmony and cooperation in new land. They become homeless, landless, and foodless in their dream land. That’s why they remember the past harmony and peace, and curse at present. Neither have they achieved their earlier dreams, hope and opportunities, nor they have been able to maintain peace and harmony in Pakistan. Therefore, their life is full of trauma, angst and frustration. In such condition, they do nothing actively except lamenting for lost happiness through memory.Item Traumatic Experience in Enrich Maria Remarque'sAll Quiet on the Western Front(Faculty of English, 2013) Chuwai, AnandaThis research entitled "Traumatic Experience in Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet'' attempts to analyze the text from the perspectives of war trauma theory. Analyzing the experiences of war of the central character Paul Baumer, this research explores how the unexpected brutality of war which he experiences has affected his psychology and how that situation develop disease like wound inside him. The main character of this novel Paul is highly traumatized due to the war when he gets involved in the war of French front. It especially focuses on child soldiers and about the fate of the soldiers in war zones, the novel not only highlights the complexity of human nature under stress but also adds an important voice to the war on child soldiers. The research attempts to study the novel from trauma theory in order to explore the impact of war on the child.Remarque in this very work examines the traumatic vision through the actual depiction of the warfare. Almost all the characters of the novel are either haunted by the terrible brutality of war which remains in their psychology as a trauma. In other words, the novel’s setting, characters, their involvement in fighting underscores traumatic vision. All major characters of the novel are fallen in traumatic circle.Item Traumatic Experience in J. M. Coetzee's Youth(Department of English, 2008) Shrestha, SumanThe present dissertation on Youth by J.M. Coetzee attempts to show a vivid portrayal of traumatic experience of the characters in 1950s triggered by the violence of colonization, resistance over indirect colonization in the postcolonial era. Coetzee, here, shows the dejected life of the protagonist as an exile in London. The protagonist's delirium caused by the gaps and disruptions of history conflates with the racial violence and the protest of Blacks. The violence and his exile force the character to experience the historical trauma. The traces of colonial mentality and the burden of communal guilt increase the pressure of trauma, he experiences.Item Traumatic experience in Jaspreet Singh’s Chef(Department of English, 2011) Bhandari, BimalChef, a historical novel by Jaspreet Singh has its roots anchored in the partition violence and Kashmir conflict. This research explores the prevalent condition of innocent people who have been traumatized by the effects of Indo-Pak conflict. Kip, as an eyewitness of the conflict, has experienced different sorts of devastating condition that surrounding people had faced during the time of conflict. He is mostly tortured with the condition of Irem, a Muslim woman who has been sexually abused by General and compelled to bear an unwanted child.Item Traumatic Experience in Virginia Woolf's The Waves(Department of English, 2014) Khatri, AshaThis research examines the six character's trauma and their failure in almost all aspects of life deep-rooted in their present world. This research, reading Woolf's The Waves, engages itself in analyzing how the six characters undergo trauma and construct their identity in relation to each other. Specifically, it shows grief, pain and suffering of characters which they lament on the death of Percival one of the characters and sustain their life in memory of the past. The Waves symbolically denotes the mental waves constructed in the present life. In addition, Woolf shows the troublesome life of characters and their relevance to accept the reality of life. Applying trauma theory, the research has explored how all characters are victimization of trauma which they develop in their mind in relation to memory. In short, this thesis examining both the mental suffering of characters and the consequence of the extreme misery concludes that the characters suffer from the memory of trauma.Item Traumatic vision in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises(Department of English, 2008) Pandeya, DineshThis present research on The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, attempts to unfold the traumatic vision through the means of characters' deteriorated traumatic condition due to the triggered experiences of the World War I and contemporary unstable politics. This novel identifies modern world's rootless ridge, World War and its destructive and frustrated worldview, where spirituality is defeated in surge of materialism leading towards the traumatic dread. The novel's presentation of war wounded hero, his emasculated condition, post World War I disillusioned and chaotic society, alcoholic characters, their rendering nature and their indulgence in drinking, watching bullfighting, gossiping and insulting others vividly unmasks the traumatic vision in the novel. Characters' life is guided by past not the present. Though they want to forget their bitter and shady past with the help of drinking, their physical and psychological wound compels them to cope with past which make them traumatic. Their memories are reflected in the forms of nightmares, flashbacks and other repetitive phenomena. Characters arrival in Europe from America is to forget their terrible and dreadful past and search for a spiritual solace, but as they are beset with traumatic experiences, their expectation turns out in an-emotional vacuum.