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Item Definition of Communism as Terrorism in Philip Roth's American Pastoral(Central Department of English, 2010-09) G.C, PrakashThis research is based on Philip Roth’s American Pastoral to expose how the communist revolution is taken as an act of terrorism despite of its own political objectives. The communist cadres in the novel are represented as criminal, monstrous and terrorist. It shows that American ideology tries to govern the world hegemonically. And it exercises institutionalized power over the communist cadres. To accomplish it, America creates a discourse to define them as terrorists. So the writer, in the text, represents Merry as a failure cadre so as to prove that holding communist ideology makes an individual a terrorist. That is only a perspective to create a discourse about the communism in American society is the main argument of this research. So, this research finds that the definition of terrorism about communism is only a discourse. And it is only a perspective to define communism with the help of power.Item Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 as an Allegory of McCarthian Era(Department of English, 2021) Tamang, Karma ChhiringIn the fictional world of Fahrenheit 451, the intellectuals and the reading culture are prohibited and the fire house and the consumerist culture are promoted by the authoritarian state.Ray Bradbury writes this sci-fi novel in order to critique the unusual and uncomfortable incidents happening in the McCarthian era.Guy Montag is a firemen who questions on his happiness and jobof boo burning, compelshimtoflee to the wilderness in order to escape from the authoritarian state ideologies andhopes to reconstruct the society of reading culture in a future.The state allocates the firemen and the Mechanical Hound as its state apparatuses to prevail its power over the people. These apparatuses work as per the order of the state to scrutinize over the citizens’ activities. Therefore, the books and its possible readers are on the constant surveillance of the state mechanisms. In a sense, Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 allegorizes the anecdotes of McCarthian Era of American political history of 1950 s. Thus, this the sisre interprets Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 as a text by using the oretical methodology of the French Marxist critic Louis Althusser’s notion of ideology and state apparatus.From Althusserian notion of state ideology, this tussle between the state and individual is a reflection of authoritarian imposition to its subject to get consent to be ruled; to prolong state power.Key Words: Althusser, communism,ideology,McCarthyism,reading culture,state apparatus,surveillance,