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Item Ecological Dystopia in Paulo Bacigalupi'sThe Water Knife(Central Department of English, 2019) Regmi, RamaThe major thrust of this study is to probe the projection of eco-consciousness, ecological crisis, climate change and socio-economic breakdown of South west America through the cause of water scarcity in Paulo Bacigalupi’sThe Water Knife. A Las Vegaswater knife, Angel cuts water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her luxurious developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get dust. The women are more suffers through this crisis. Women spend most of the time andare closed with nature for their shelter in this dominated society. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in drought-ravaged Phoenix, it seems California is making a play to monopolize the life-giving flow of the river, and Angel is sent toinvestigate. The concept of ecological dystopia is useful to describing the situation of a woman who is forced to dwell in a critical situation. It has portrayed the importance of natural resources in human life for the continuation of the ecological system. While some kind of crisis appears in nature, all human and non-human beings get suffered. If ecological integrity breaks down, human existences would face serious threats and dangers. The degrading environmental condition calls into question the permanence and continuity of human existence. When the existence of human being faces serious limitations, human beings would be really at a loss. Thus, this research explores how the hope for scientific progress has turned the world into toxicity leading to ecological dystopia. Key Words: Ecological dystopia, water scarcity, patriarchal society, natural destruction,apocalyptic, environmental condition, enlightenmentItem Female Voice in W. B. Yeats' Selected Poetry(2015) Singh, KritiThis research analyzes the W. B. Yeats' poetry from the feminist perspective taking the ideas of Simone De Beauvoir and Elaine Showalter. It observes that W. B. Yeats is supporter of women issues. His poetry depicts the women‘s pathetic condition in patriarchal society and sometimes his poetry gives rebellious character to the women. Despite being a male, Yeats has able to suspend male ego in many of his poem. Yeats has focused on enlightenment of women. He believes that to create better world men and women are necessary and equal worth. Unlike his contemporaries, Yeats upholds the issues of women in a positive way.Item Madness of Women in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway(Faculty of english, 2007-07) Parajuli, LaxmanAbstract Virginia Woolf'sMrs. Dallowayis a novel which portraysthe female suffocation in the patriarchal society. Due to such suffocation, females have to face many difficulties, such as mental breakdown or madness that sometimes leads even to suicide. In the novel, Clarissa's doppelganger Septimus Smith has to undergo mental breakdown due to the suffocation of patriarchal domination and treatment system. Females are dominated on social, physical, economical, political, and also in the name of treatment which can be clearly noticed in the novel. The middle-aged female protagonist Clarissa Dalloway is forced to stay in the attic by her husband, M.P Richard Dalloway as he thinks that she has gone insane or mad. Though she gets confused in her life because of the alluring patriarchal discourse, she realizes the deceptiveand destructive potential in it after hearing the suicide news of her doppelganger, Septimus Smith. Moreover, she finds herself not as an independent individual but the wife of Richard. i.e. merely Mrs. Dalloway.Item Marriage as the Determinant of Female Class in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park(Central Department of English, 2007) Dahal, RakshaJane Austen, in Mansfield Park, shows the secondary position of women in the patriarchal society. She has been able to present the contemporary social, economic and political condition of the society that is controlled by the patriarchal authority when women are marginalized and their rights have been curtailed by the conventional authority. By creating different female characters, she has tried to give a perfect picture of her contemporary patriarchal society and its domination over women. In the novel, most of the female characters are dependent. Their only one way to climb the social ladder is their marriage with a rich man so, they always seem in search of wealthy suitor. This proves their submissive position in the society.Item Quest for Female Identity in Coelho’s The Witch of Portobello(Department of English, 2011) Rai, Ram DhanPaulo Coelho's The Witch of Portobello provides quest for women's independent identity in the newly built Europeon society. It also portrays women's struggle for freedom and autonomy which is possible but not so easy. Coelho, through this novel, tries to expose the women's power to overcome the boundaries created by patriarchal authority. He seems to provide women's own authority to make themselves free from the biased norms and values of the patriarchal ideology. Athena, the protagonist of this novel challenges patriarchal norms and values and fights throughout her life for her freedom and autonomy. Patriarchal society tries to make her subservient towards the norms and values of male authority, they force her to move in the path created by them but Athena struggles against the biased attitude and exposes her own way to move which the patriarchal society doesn’t accept. Though she is blamed as witch, she moves forwards with her own values and ultimately becomes the martyr for the women's dignity and self-identities.Item Voice from the Margin: Feminist Identity in Plath’s Collected Poems(Department of English, 2008) Basnet, Purna BahadurSylvia Plath harshly attacks repressive patriarchal society which has not only rendered women as sub-human, inferior, mysterious, and uncertain but also has rendered the female insignificant . In the Collected Poems, Plath exposes the discrimination and violence meted out to females and their bodies. While exposing this, Plath raises her voice vehemently against patriarchy, which reflects her attempt to claim female identity and subjectivity as separate niche.