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Item Degraded Sexuality in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises(Faculty of English, 2016) Bhandari, NarahariThis study is an attempt to explore sex as a powerful and destructive force. It uses the trend of Lost Generation. Lost Generation writers revealed the sordid nature of the shallow, frivolous lives. The characters spend their time socializing, drinking, dancing, and involving in an erotic nature. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, sexual jealousy leads one of the characters like Robert to violate his code of ethics and attack Jake, Mike, and Pedro. The desire for sex prevents Brett from entering into a relationship with Jake though she loves him. Here, sex undermines both Robert’s honor, and Jake and Brett’s love. Brett is closely associated with the negative consequences of sex. She is a liberated woman, having sex with multiple men and feeling no compulsion to commit to any of them. Her carefree sexuality makes Jake and Mike miserable and drives Robert to acts of violence. She is a symbol of infantile sexuality, resistance, and transference about a strong, sexually independent woman.Item Quiet Desperation of Modern Life: A Study of Beckett’s Happy Days(Faculty of English, 2007) Thapa, SarikaNot availableItem Representation of Holocaust History in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief(Department of English, 2016) Rimal, ShankarThis present research focuses on the issues of representation of Holocaust History in order to show the tale Holocaust setting, period of Second World War and narrativization of holocaust story in Zusak’s The Book Thief. Zusak continues to offer more historical explanations through the serious tone of Death. The irony of the character of Death being serious is prominent throughout the novel, especially when this is contrasted with the cruel realities of the war-torn world. Death is a narrater who narrates the story of Liesel’s especially in the setting of Second World War. Main protagonist Liesel who is victimized from Nazis, she loses her relatives in the Second World War. In books such as Zusak’s The Book Thief, stories unfold about courageous child protagonists who rise above the terror and torture of the Nazi regime in order to protect the ones they love and the religion, culture, and society for which they stand. The message of hope and defiance is an honorable one, and yet it raises the question of whether or not such a message is appropriate. Drowing upon the notion of Foucault and Louis Montrose, this research proves The Book Thief represents holocaust history.Item 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.