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Item Irony in Victorian Liberalism: A Study of Trollope’s The Warden(Department of English, 2011) Khadka, BinitaTrollope's The Warden ironically unearths the sway of liberalism in Victorian England and its negative effect on the city of Barchester. The irony lies in the objective of Bold which turns into opposite direction at the ending. People like John Bold and the bedsmen of Hiram's Hospital try to exercise liberalism with hope of getting benefits from it without caring its negative result. Because of over exercising freedom and liberty , it not only ruins the life of Mr. Harding, but they also overcome to pathetic situations. this ironical turning in the disillusions the hope of liberalism is false like the chimera. The chimera of liberalism victimizes Septimus Harding, John Bold and the bedsmen until they cease to follow it. In this light, the concept of liberalism is not always good and beneficial - it is ironical. The whole foundation of novel is the attempt to get the promise of liberalism and its ironical tone because of the futile hope of the characters like Bold and the beds men. The ironical device has been enacted in this novel to portray the real, bitter and somehow negative effect of liberalism existed in Victorian society.Item Lady Windermere's Resistance in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan(2007) Hadkhale, Arjun PrasadThis dissertation examines the anguish and shocks experienced by the protagonist, Lady Windermere in Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan. It reflects not only the suppression of this Lady in her traditional society butalso the emancipation of her in male-governed society. Lady Windermere, who realizes the humiliation to be a female and finds physical and mental torture upon her life, fails to find equal status with her husband. She is fed up with her conventional husband, and the systems set in the traditional Victorian society are not acceptable to her as an intellectual woman. The anguish and pain experienced by the protagonist awakens the senses of her precarious existence. However, this Lady is able to find her own self by resisting the patterns set by traditional Victorian society. This is the sublime- perception of her oneself in her society. There is a journey made by the protagonist in her society which is plotted by Oscar Wilde very cleverly. She starts her life from subjugation and ends with emancipation. This emancipation also reflects the emancipation of the entire world of women.Item The Marriage between Equals: Gender Relations in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre(Faculty of English, 2014) Ale, Madhi MayaCharlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre has been approached from different perspectives.This thesis"The Marriage between Equals: Gender Relations in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre" attempts to examine the mutual relationship and interdependence in companionate marriage.The novel’s three characters–Jane, Rochester and St.John Rivers–have different views and ideals regarding marriage and family relationship.Mr.Rochesterat firstand St. John Rivers attemptto have traditional dynastic type of marriage with Jane. The power of masculinity and conventionality is ultimately defeated by Jane as she gets married with Rochester on the basis of mutual relationship. This research explains the companionate marriage between Jane and Mr. Rochester by tracing the historical,social and cultural background of Victoriantimes. The male domineering power of the 19 th century is evident in Mr. Rochester and St. John. The social and historical framework of marriage allows me to examine the characters of this novel from the perspective of woman’s consciousness.Marriage with love and mutual bond are elements of companionate marriage, which this research attempts to highlight. This novel has the pattern of women's consciousness which rejects Victorian conventionalities concerning marriage and domestic life. Charlotte Brontë creates a radical form of marriage between equal partners only when Mr.Rochester realizes his mistakes and accepts marriage as based in mutual relationship.Item Quest for an Ideal Woman in Thomas Hardy’s The Well-Beloved(2013) Chaudhary, Ram AsreAbstract The Well- Beloved is one of Hardy’s ‘romances and fantasies’ which explores the destructiveness of a man’s idealization of women through ageing process of an individual by three generations. It is filled with misguided love, and is closely concerned with the thoughts and feelings of women. It delineates the situation of females in Victorian patriarchal society where they were exploited, subordinated, and undermined by male that means patriarchy defined itself in relation to the supremacy of males over females in Victorian society. Because of such representation, patriarchy undercut the egalitarian standpoint to view woman in the society by placing them as the subordinated ‘object’ or ‘other’. Such marginalization of woman is an inherent tenet of male practice of patriarchy evident in The Well- Beloved because it depicts the ego of masculinity in the name of ‘desire’ or ‘imagination’ of ‘ideal’ object and ‘perfection’ searching for that domain in women. It also explores the resistance of unities of Western discourse or male-centered thinking by females. However, at the end, Hardy’s novel The Well-Beloved clarifies that all the women, in patriarchal society are not submissive, naïve and weak but most of them are also powerful, authoritative and strong like men.Item Returns of the Repressed in R.L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(Department of English, 2011) Acharya, PrakashThis research work studies R.L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydefrom the psychoanalytical perspectives. It explores the repressed psyche of the character which returns through the means of horror story. The fear about the future becomes repressed in the psyche of the main character Dr. Jekyll. A dual or split personalityshowsthat the same personhasboth good as well as evil qualities which are exposed in different conditions.When people are in normal condition they seem good and gentle, and when they are intoxicated they show their true identity i.e. full of cruelty and irrationality. The major charactersof the novella, Dr. Jekyll has two personalities: Dr. Jekyll ( a good and professional physician) and Mr. Hyde (an evil and murderous character). Drug plays a major role to separatethemfrom good to evil andviceversa. From theFreudianperspective,these two distinct personalities of the same person represent two different aspects of human psyche i.e. conscious and unconscious. Stevenson by describing the split identity of the character portrays the tendency of repressingexcessivedesire inthe contemporary society.Outwardly, theyseemed respectable, but inwardly were immoral and encompassed by dual characters like: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This is thepsychic statethat the research focuses on.Item Victorian Hypocrisy and Dualism in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson and The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde(Faculty of English, 2020) Acharya, JyotiThis has examined the prevalence of hypocrisy and dualism in the late Victorian society as reflected in the two literary works of that time, namely the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and the play The Importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde. The research has explicated the meaning of hypocrisy and dualism and how they have been reflected in these two works. The individual roles of hypocrites and dualists of Victorian society have been recognized via the main characters in the novel and the play to establish a hypocritical society in general. The main problem of the research was to find the solution to the question why the major characters with so called good social images practiced hypocrisy and dualism. The main objective of the study was to identify the hypocritical and dualist behaviour of the characters and explore the reasons behind exercising hypocrisy and dualism. Hypocrisy and dualism have been used as the tools of analysis. The study has concluded that the novel and the play represent the Victorian society in which people exercised hypocrisy and dualism to secretly escape the strict social decorum and to cheat people for personal benefit, as reflected by the major characters in these two works.Item Women as 'Other' in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles(Department of English, 2011) Kafle, Manita KumariThis research entitled "Women as 'Other' in Hardy'sTess of the d'Urbervilles"explores the poor condition of women in postcolonial setting. Even though,women are free from being colonized, they are dominated by men in the patriarchal society. This research focuses on how women become 'Other' in the Victorian peasantsociety. In this research, the female protagonist Tess is treated as 'Other' because of the contemporary Victorian society. The Victorian society looks at woman as 'Other' or 'thing'. So, in this society, women suffer so much. This study is done from postcolonialist feminist perspective to study the condition of women in the contemporary society of Victorian Period by incorporating information from different articles, literary works, internet web-sites etc. All information is presented and analyzed to prove the condition of women in the society.