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Item Fractured Heroes in Roth'sGoodbye, Columbusand "Eli, the Fanatic"(Department of English, 2007) Shrestha, SailataThis research work has analyzed Roth's use of dedoublement irony to show Prufrockian characteristics of the protagonist. Neil and Eli, the protagonists of Goodbye, Columbusand "Eli, the Fanatic" respectively are the operators of the irony. They suffer from religious and cultural crisis. Due to this, Neil and Eli cannot reconcile their thought and understanding with their feeling and will.Because of insensivity and cowardice the heroes cannot fulfill their dreams and their life becomes aimless and confused. Both of them are deeply ambivalent about their history and identity due to which their life gets fractured. Thusthe heroes work as the operators of irony and reveal the double movement of Jews living in America in which irony also redounds to the heroes themselves conditioning them to laugh at their own miserable conditions.Item Resistance against Colonialism inLife and Times of Michael K(Department of English, 2008) Chauhan, Guru PrasadJ.M. Coetzee’s novelLife and Times of Michael Klucidly exposes the impact of colonial imposition upon an individual and the latter’s continuous struggle to free oneself from the tangled web of colonialism in order to continue the life of his own choice. Michael K does never relent his confidence during the hard struggle against colonial agents and its system. In the background of civil strife due to apartheid in South Africa, the novel Life and Times of Michael Kdepicts the hostile socio-economic, political and cultural crisis in which Michael K is embroiled in the turmoil of restriction and confinement in the camps. But he protests against all these non-violently so as to attain freedom and independence. Michael K never indulges in violent actions to fight against the colonial imposition, but he raises the more powerful weapons like disobedience, non- cooperation, fasting and truth. Despite excessive torment Michael K never refrains from his journey to achieve his goal. He takes non-violent protest as a supreme weapon to cut every thread of the colonial web that ruins the life of human beings.