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Item Anti-Heroism in Camus’The Stranger and Bellow’s The Dangling Man(Department of English, 2007) Ghimire, Manoj KumarCamus’ protagonist Meursault inThe Strangerand Bellow’s Joseph inThe Dangling Mansufferfrom alienation and estrangement from the society and the self itself. They can not adjust themselves to the socialnorms, and fail to assimilate themselves to their respective societies. Hence, they turn into social misfits and their existence is in crisis due to their anxiety. They feel alienated from the world because it provides a lucid experience of freedom which characterizes human existence as absurd. Meursault and Joseph are deprived of the actual justice that is synonymous to modern predicament. In such a chaotic world, their experiences can not cast off the veil of illusion to perpetuate life. Thus, they find themselves torn between these two polarities. Their temporal condition on the Earth is just to live through revolting against the absurdity and irrationality. They are the anti-heroes in terms of indifference, alienation, and existential crisis. Moreover, the anti-heroism or the lack of will to act gets intensified as they undergo alienation, frustration, and existential crisis resulting largely through their disbelief to social interdicts while pursuing for an autonomous self.Item Child Marriage on Madeshi Dalits community: A Case Study of Santapurvillagewards, 8 Chandrapurmuniciplity of Rautahat District.(Central Department of Rural Development, 2018) Thapa, Amar RajA thesis entitled “Child Marriage On Madeshi Dalits Community:A Case Study Of SantapurVillageWard Number, 8, Chandrapur Municipality’’. The general object of the study is to analysis the situation of child marriage of my study areas. The specific objectives of the study are to find out the socio - economic and demographic characteristics of madeshidalits, to explore the hidden causes of child marriage in myresearch areas. It also finds out the consequences of child marriage in theircommunity.This study was conducted in a selected ward number of eight of Chandrapurmunicipality of Rautahat district. It has been conducted on the basis of field surveyapplying exploratory methods in which 62 household and 6 key informants weretaken as sample.This study was based on the primary and secondary data, but focus isgiven to the primary data, which wascollected from the field survey using structurequestionnaire, observation with the different respondent. The secondary data forresearch was collected from the books, published, unpublished document, articlesjournals and internet.From the analysis, it is found that only 33.33 percent of male are educated andlooking to the female only 21.35 % are educated. Large number of peopledoesn’tattendschool in their life and the people who also attend school are leavingschool insecondary level.It alsofindsout the changing patterns of the child marriage from threegeneration. The finding of the study was that peopleare the age more than 60 yearsatpresent timehave married before 10 years. People who are above 40 and below 40years have married above 10years and below 15 likewise people who are the agemore than 25 and less than 40 have married ages between 16-19 years.Only 17.74 %of total household knows the legal age at marriage and 82.26 % don't know the legalage at marriage. Most of the household monthly income is not sufficient forexpenditure and they borrow the money from the landlord. The main causes of earlychild marriage in such community are poverty and social norms cultural and religious,high rate of illiteracy, high rate of poverty, pressure of society and relatives, practiceof Dowry system, insecurity and fears of remaining unmarried etc. Existing viciouscircle of poverty, low literacy rate, high number of population growth, negative 6 impact on mother and children health etc. are majorconsequences of child marriageseen in my research areas.To reduce such married different NGOs and ward office are lunching differentprograms. Plan Nepal Rautahat NGOs andJansewa Nepal Rautahat bal club are thetwo organization actively working on it. From 2075 baishakh 11 with the collaboration of these three sectors i.e.(Ward Office, Jan Nepal And Jansewa Nepal)ward number 8 have been made child marriage prohibited area.Poverty reduction increase literacy rate, women empowerment, and strong implement of laws regarding child marriage can be the effective ways to reduce child marriage.Item Critiqueof Patriarchy in Defoe’sRoxana(Central Department of English, 2013) Chundali, Tilak RajThis research entitled"Critiqueof Patriarchy in Defoe’sRoxana" analyzes the novel from the perspective of feminism. Roxana is the main character of novelwho resists patriarchy by using her female sexuality. Roxana expresses arguments against the position of wives, and extols the status of mistress. Revolutionary nature of Roxana introduces her asrevolutionaryof contemporary society. Roxana criticizes ongoing male dominated marriage system of the time and both mentally and physicallyandfight against it. She breaks the contract of marriage which is almost impossible at that time and celebrates freedom in life.Roxana brings her voices and establish her as feminist and protest patriarchy. In 18 th century,women beganto get equalrightand protest maledomination thoughbreaking socialnorms which made for women. Thispractice isvery nearto modern feministtheory sothisstudy isbased on feministperspective.Item Female Identity Crisis in Gustave Flaubert'sMadame Bovary(Department of English, 2009) Karki, Milan KumarIn Madame Bovary, Flaubert's female character (protagonist) undergoes unexplicable chain of events questioning her identity. Flaubert's prime time 1857 and onwards marks the Victorian society when females were briddled by the rein of patriarchy. Flaubert being stirred by the pang and excruciating impulse of females, delienated how the women were made the scapegoats of patriarchal norms and values with deceptive simplicity. His female character's (Emma) fiasco is not the result of the fatal flaw which was predestined but due to the norms and etiquettes imposed upon her by the patriarchal society. Flaubert, in his Madame Bovary, leaves no stone unturned to project the identity crisis of Emma. She is utterly betrayed and spurned by characters such as Charles, Rodolphe, Leon, Lheureux and Monsieur Guillaumin and others who are the representative of that society. Emma's failure emanates and ends as she cannot stand the most unsympathetic treatment by the scape-graces menfolk. The novel also demystifies the male-female relationship sustaining under the duress.Item Reconstruction of Normalcy inBlue mimosa(Department of English, 2008) Khanal, Thakur PrasadThis research presents the reconstruction of normalcy in the textBlue Mimosa (a translated text of Parijat’s Nepali novelSirish Ko Phoolby Thanka Vilas Varya). The issue of constructing normalcy and stigmatization under the theory of disability study has been undertaken in this research. In light of the theme of reconstructing normalcy Parijat’s projection here is to question to the contemporary social norms of life, love, God, death etc. Rather than anyindividual character Parijat as a whole has been reconstructing her own intellectual and social normalcy with the unique depiction of her characters, plot, structure, theme etc. of the novel.Item Subversion of Normalcy in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child(Department of English, 2009) Parajuli, BasudevDorisLessing'sThe Fifth Childtries to reveal the conventions of social norms and values that are human constructions so they can be built and rebuilt in society. Every society has fixed social discourses which are guided by power. Power paves the way to truth, truth changes when power changes. Power is at the centre and builds different norms and values; they are neither true nor false in themselves. If anything happens out of social discourse, there might be upheaval in society. Society creates certain identities while she/he is living. These certain identities are ruled by power and truth. Society begins its power after birth over his/her existence. As a result, we see that ugly, deaf or abnormal children are put out from the society. They think that abnormal children have no lives and are burden of societies. So, our duty is to liberate and secure their lives. Abnormal children arenot themselves faulty because we are made to think so. We are afraid of normalcy. We should bind normal hands to abnormal hands and stay in single society. Our social spectacles should be changed and we should behave normally to these abnormal ones. Normalcy is each and every society should be subverted and it should be brought in the mainstream of contemporary society. Every person has right to live in his/her societies and he/ she is judged biologically not socially. Social truths are always dangerous forhuman existence.