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Item Portrayal of New Woman in Selected Stories fromDream Vision and Realities(Central Department of English, 2019) Bhattarai, MaheshwarThis paper makes an attempt to analyze the issue of representation of New woman in five selected short stories from the anthology Dream Vision and Realities edited by Stephanie Forward. The stories are: “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Drawing-Room” by Mona Caird, “The Man in the Scented Coat” by Sarah Grand, “The Revolt of ‘Mother” by Mary E. Wilkins and “The Storm” by Kate Chopin. The study is based on the theoretical concept of New Woman by Henry James who used it to describe the evolution of educated, independent and revolutionary woman in western society. As the research finds, the writer portrays thewoman as new woman to showcase the rise of changed female personality who no more remain under the domination of patriarchal society. Finally, the research concludes that all stories begin with submissive woman characters and during the progression of plotthe characters gradually change to new woman, so in that sense all the stories focus on the process of being new woman. Key Words: New woman, Patriarchy, Revolutionary Woman, Victorian Society, Womanhood, ConventionalItem Representation of Victorian Society in George Bernard Shaw’sMrs. Warren’s Profession: A Rhetorical Analysis(Department of English, 2021) Bhandari, MandiraMrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is an attempt to debunk Victorian duality and priggishness.It depicts how Victorians are hollow and superficial beneath the quote of decency, civilization and culture.To mirror the sharp contrast between rhetoric and reality of Victorian society,playwright designs Mrs. Warren as aprotagonist who is a sex worker by her profession.The Victorians in those days prepossessed that the mere cause behind prostitution is female licentiousness and obscenity.Because of this hypothetical attitude, the Victorians, without weighing up the possible factors that could lead to prostitution, used to regard such females as the nemesis of society. However,Shaw flips over common mindset of the people via the play by depicting that prostitution is not the result of female depravitybut it is the productof need and necessity. Heurges the audience to reconsider the issuehinting that it is society who is restricting the equal right of its every member tothe available resources and ultimately leading to such problems.He is successfulto dososince Mrs. Warren at the end of the play irrespective of whather profession is, seemssympatheticand victim of the circumstances.This paper seeks to examine the rhetorical strategies used by Shaw to create such effect in the play. It aims to analyze the ways Shaw employs to persuade the audiences that prostitutes are also the members of our society and they deserve our proper care, attention and respect.The primary focus of the paper is on piste is, style and Kairos. Keywords:double standard, identification, consubstantiality, irony, priggishness, procurers,moral bankruptcyItem Social Realism in Charlotte Bronte's The Professor(Department of English, 2007) Sharma, BashudevCharlotte Bronte'sThe Professorvigorously stands as an outstanding novel iii unfolding the socio-economic situation of the Victorian society. This work basically focuses on the pathetic condition of oppressed class people inEngland. It reflects the tussle between the upper class and lower class people in their attempts to raise their socio-economic status. To show the social reality, the novelist has created above mentioned two sets of characters based on the socio-economic condition. The central characters William and Frances Henry are working as labourers under capitalist mode of society. Wherever they go they cannot be free form the claws of bourgeois that make their life deplorable and poverty. The whole situation of human degradation has been portrayed as an inevitable consequence of private accumulation of capital, overwhelming gulf between poor and rich. Edward, Mr. Hunsden, M. Pelet, Zoraide Reuter belong to upper class of people. They present their cruel behaviour with the workers in their factory, private schools etc. William moves from one after another job for the hope of getting a respectable social economic status.