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Item Acting Out of Trauma in Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly(Department of English, 2014) Pokhrel, Hom NathThe present dissertation on Bahman Ghobadi’s film Turtles Can Fly attempts to show a vivid portrayal of traumatic experience of the characters in Iraq by the violence of the Iraqi armies. Ghobadi here shows the dejected life of the characters and their traumatic experience because of their direct personal experiences of the atrocities perpetrated by the Iraqi armies on the eve of US invasion. The protagonist’s delirium caused by the gaps and the disruptions of war, conflicts and violence increases the pressure of trauma which constantly rises to the surface of his mind and makes him alienated because they become the chief determinant of his life. This is an attempt at acting out the trauma which, however, does not get evacuated so that it remains melancholia.Item Ramchandra K.C.’s Rebel:A Study on War Trauma(Department of English, 2012) Joshi, Satya RajThis research examines Rebel,a collection of stories, compiled and edited by Ramchandra KC,how traumatic narratives of this anthology reflect the social cultural reality of Nepal during the decade-long Maoistinsurgency. Traumatic narratives in the anthology reflect the reality of war time society.Characters in each storyare traumatized by the war and its after-effects. This study mainly tries to prove how the characters ingiven narratives are traumatized by the Maoist insurgency and what kind of psyche develops on peoples mind during the time of war. The anthology captures the scene of Maoist insurgency which is full of traumatic events. Death, destructions and anarchy are the main plotof narratives. People are equally victimized by the Maoists and state authority. In the name of various pre-texts, they killed, kidnapped and tortured the people that led to trauma. These traumatic experiences of the characters in the anthology seem very real. Ramlal Baje, Chetman, Hareram’s mother, Dillsara and Slaughterer are some of the leading characters who represent the war psyche. They are the real traumatic characters who represent traumatized selves in the anthology.Item Remembering Traumatic Experiences in Alicia Partnoy’s The Little School(Department of English, 2015) Phago, Hem RajThe study in Alicia Partnoy’sThe Little Schooltries to focus on war and it’s aftereffects on the Argentinean people. She tells the stories of the people that she met and saw through her tiny hole in her blindfold while she was in the clandestine detention center ironically named the Little School. This novel has been read on the basis of trauma theory. The novelThe Little Schoolby Partnoy, depicts some of the accounts of the innocent people that were imprisoned and tortured during the dirty war period in Argentinean history. The study finds views and ideas of traumatic experience in the novel covering the ideas of freedom, human rights, to fight against the military oppression, to acquire freedom and search for humanity. In writing this novel Partnoy has brought out the military brutality and inhuman act in the concentration camp. Trauma is the memory of past and it’s aftereffects which connect withhuman psychology.The Little Schoolis a story of resistance which ultimately leads those characters towards psychological pain. Through the critical analysis of Partnoy’s narration of war experience, this research aims to explore the psyche of the peopleat the time of the war.Item Terror and Trauma in J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello(Department of English, 2012) Joshi, Prem RajThe present thesis undertakes the study of terror and trauma in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello. The main theme of this text is Holocaust. Coetzee expresses the situation of 1944 where conspirators were hanged by Hitler. He also presents the situation of Treblinka, Rome and Berlin where Nazi workers have killed Jews, they were treated as animal. The principal character Elizabeth Costello fells trouble about the situation of animal in farm industry because of that the slaughter houses are transforming into Holocaust. She also upsets to the literary writer Paul West and his creative style, this is the reason why the obscene words and extreme highlight about the traumatic situation of Nazi holocaust is created in his novel The Very Rich Hour of Count von Stauffenberg. So Coetzee shows that the literary writers give pain and torture to their readers by their literary creation.Item Trauma and Recovery in Julia Glass's Three Junes(Department of English, 2015) Thakur, Ashwinee KumarThis research work investigates characters’ sense of his in trauma in Julia Glass’s Three Junes. It amplifies how Paul, in efforts to heel his trauma with death of Maureen, travels to Greece, meets fern, and narrates stories of his tragic life. It studies how the people live beyond heartbreak, shame, and regret over opportunities lost because of the emotional barriers they raise. Even in the difficult emotional trauma they manage not to give up on love and come out of the painful memories in Glass’s narrative. Different characters suffer through a recent death in each of the characters and has experienced the loss. Paul, a wealthy Scottish widower in his sixties in the first section, Fenno, his gay expatriate son in the second section, and a young American woman, Fern, in the third section make a fibric of Three Junes. Their trauma is presented in parallel to various historical incidents in such a that creates horrors and sufferings in minds of people of the time. Plane crash in Lockerbie, Ireland, and the outbreak of AIDS epidemic in America and the horror of gays and common public are intermingled with the trauma of Paul and Fenno respectively. Though Paul dies without coming out of the trauma, Fenno and Fern recover from it with acceptance of social role and responsibility at last. Glass’s protagonist in his live fun the dead wife relates his past life to transform his traumatic experiences into pleasant moments in the course of time. In this fiction Paul undergoes a process of healing though travel and narrates.Item Traumatic Experience of Lydia and Her Family Members in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit(Department of English, 2015) Pun, Keshab BahadurDangor’ novel Bitter Fruit is a novel of traumatic experience experienced by black people especially by Lydia in the novel along with her family members. It is not only personal trauma but also trauma in collective manner. Dangor has tactfully presented the traumatic feeling of the blacks’ experience in the contemporary society in South Africa. The domination and deprivation from natural rights and racial discrimination are the traumatic events for blacks where rape has become a best and easiest way to dictate. No matter whether it is blacks or anybody else rape traumatized every person who becomes victimized of. Traumatized person express their experience in different ways. Black women were being raped due to various reasons like being involved in Blacks movement by their husband or themselves. Just to torture them and fulfil their sexual desire white used to rape blacks and for many more reasons. Rape has become mostly known but not spoken matter in the South AfricaItem Traumatic Experiences of a Soldier in A.P.Herbert’s The Secret Battle(Faculty of English, 2013) Niroula, IndrajitA. P. Herbert's The Secret Battle is a classic novel of World War I. It is the story of an idealistic young officer called Harry Penrose. First in Gallipoli, then in France, he is tested and brought to breaking point. It is the story of one man's secret battle within himself: the fight to retain ideals of military glory amid the miseries of the trenches, to preserve a sense of duty to an incompetent command, to inspire his men with courage he had long ago lost. It is fairly short, but quite worthwhile for the amazing descriptions of the struggles, experienced by junior officers in Gallipoli and France. It is written as a sort of fictional memoir from the point of view of a narrator, who is writing to set the record straight about his friend, Harry Penrose. The story is a protest against the mercilessness of the military machine, and does a very effective job of showing that Penrose has been failed by the system. Although this study incorporates traumatic experiences of the soldiers and common people due to the wars waged by war mongers in order to fulfill their vested interests or selfish motives, it does not offer an analysis of authoritarian and imperialistic theories. Furthermore, examination of traumatic experience is the primary tool of analysis. The primary objective of this project is to explore the traumatic experiences of the soldiers in the First World War as described in The Secret Battle. It attempts to show the misuse of power and authority by the war mongers. It aims to show the pathetic condition of innocent, dedicated and devoted soldiers through the troublesome saga of Penrose who inspires his troops and tries very hard to serve the battalion well but gets tragic fate at last. This project analyzes the mental effects resulting from the torturous, inhuman, cruel and merciless treatment to the soldiers as well as the common people.