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Decoding the Thematic Imagery in Charlotte Perkins Gilman\u27s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”
Get PDFThis paper deploys the methodology of textual analysis to re-read and undertake an exegesis of the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Bliss” penned by modernist writer Katherine Mansfield. The exploration of the symbols and imagery that abound in the texts reveal and underscore the thematic framework of the short stories. While the colour, animal and food imagery add richness to the story of Bertha Mason in “Bliss”, the multifarious symbols are symptomatic of the protagonist’s mental make-up and the descent into madness of her creative propensity in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
A Critical Analysis of Sharankumar Limbale’s Hindu: A Novel (2010)
Get PDFA Critical Analysis of Sharankumar Limbale’s Hindu: A Novel (2010) This paper critically analysis Sharankumar Limbale’s Hindu: A Novel (2010). It is set in a small casteist village of Achalpur in Maharashtra and is translated from Marathi (2003) by Arun Prabha Mukherjee in 2010. Dalit literature has undergone a transformation in the twenty-first century and Sharankumar Limbale is an active participant in it. The paper, thus, traces this very trajectory along with providing a detailed analysis of the plethora of techniques Limbale employs to present a world of Dalits, which is not binary world but one where characters are grey and humane; where the path Dr. B. R. Ambedkar left for them to follow is not liberating enough; where the struggle against casteism is as much internal as it is external; where the women and the lower class are doubly oppressed; and where the Dalit movement’s trajectory is in question. This paper then addresses these themes and tries to comprehend what Limbale tries to project through his work
Feminist Attributes for Parenting: Suggested by Adichie
Get PDFChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is a contemporary Nigerian writer. I choose her work Dear Ijeawele, Or, A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions, as it gives suggestion for parenting in a feminist manner. A series of personal letter accommodated in a book are refreshing take on parenting and can be studied as an initial guide to understand feminism as an ideology. My main focus with this paper is to focus on two different kinds of parenting suggested by her and by Lois Gould, from her short story The story of X, where she creates a narrative revolving around gender-neutral parenting, and how these two can be read together to give a refreshing take on parenting, which is radical in nature because it dissects the norms
Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction
Get PDFDoris Lessing, the Nobel Laureate (1919-2007), a British novelist, poet, a writer of epic scope, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was the “most fearless woman novelist in the world, unabashed ex-communist and uncompromising feminist”. Doris has earned the great reputation as a distinguished and outstanding writer. She raised local and private problems of England in post-war period with emphasis on man-woman relationship, feminist movement, welfare state, socio-economic and political ethos, population explosion, terrorism and social conflicts in her novels
Existentialist Perspective: A Study of Taslima Nasrin\u27s Novel French Lover
Get PDFTaslima Nasrin is a liberal humanist writer who struggles for freedom and continues to stand by people who face injustice in her writings. French Lover is the story of an Indian woman who in a traditional cover-up of patriarchy is submissive, conventional, and oppressive. The novel is a portrait of a woman who efforts to subvert the patriarchal traditions and come out from the shackles of stereotypical beliefs and conventionality. Nila, the protagonist, meanders her way in real life where she breaks and goes away from the mismatched marriage and rejects the experience offered by Benoir. Nila being a strong character retains her individuality against the destructive forces that challenged her existence. She faces an existential crisis when she detaches herself from her family, her husband, and her French lover. She undergoes the subsequent trauma and her successful exit from all the hurdles makes her realize that she has an existence of her own that is distinct from all others and She is free to choose and exist authentically. Danielle, the other character subjugated by her near and dear in her very early age, disowned her relations and denied conventionality where she lives via her way.  
Intricate Coalescence of Nature and Philosophy in Coelho’s world: Ruminations from The Alchemist
Get PDF In The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho projects Santiago communicating with Nature which he refers to as the common language of the world. A study of The Alchemist will reveal how Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a bounty treasure explores the wisdom of life. His quest for the treasure buried near the Pyramids propels him to enter an unchartered territory from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert. This paper aims to explore the ecological reflections mired with concepts of slants in philosophy. Ecology on one hand is considered as a branch of science but, despite providing erudition on the subject it is understood that it provides sagacity to understand the universe better. This paper rightly discusses the amalgamation of nature and literature. It is indeed a manifestation of the recurrently believed ideologies that connect human psyche and platitudes of the cosmos. The logos that interrelates the existing connection between the non human and the human species require an exceptional mastery. This paper will analyze and depict the emotions connected with nature from the spectacle of the Protagonist Santiago in The Alchemist
The Case of Blurring Memories: Reading Elizabeth is Missing
Get PDFThis paper seeks to focus on the dimensions of a narrative about the narrator, the language employed. A narrative from the perspective of an older Dementia patient is studied, whose blurring memories are trying to explore the mysteries of her past and present. By doing this, the paper aims to investigate the constant cyclic shift in her narrative that changes the way meaning is looked upon, revises the metaphors attached to it. The paper also explores the story of aging and how aging is often seen from a negative viewpoint
Achievers of Freedom in the Select Novels of Rabindranath Tagore
Get PDFMy article analyses the achievers of freedom in the select novels of Tagore who dedicate themselves to the higher ideals of love, self-knowledge and truth. They represent Tagore’s vision of freedom where man-made shackles fail to trap the Universal Man. Tagore’s idea of freedom begins with the personal and ends with the universal. The different characters in his novels reach different levels of freedom in their search. They struggle as they are faced with challenges, but they all grow. The true achievers analyzed in the select novels of Tagore are the emancipated characters who possess the innate strength to confront the outward challenges of the society and achieve ultimate freedom by transcending from the lower self through love, knowledge and creativity
The Problem of Ethnicity in Khaled Hosseini\u27s The Kite Runner
No full textEthnicity is a worldwide matter and is based on a cluster of personality originated from some ancestry and shares some common traits like language, culture, religion, rite and rituals of the society. Belonging to the same inherited status every member of the ethnic group share same dress -style and have similar physical appearance. "Ethnicity refers to a group of people who are of the same origin, history, values , attitude and behavior[1].In every nation throughout the world, there are some ethnic group. Afghanistan is such a country where there is a large number of ethnic group like - Pashtuns, Hazara, Tajik, Uzbek, Aimak, Turkman,and Beloch etc. Khaled Hosseini\u27s The Kite Runner set in Afghanistan and U.S.A. depicts the two major ethnic group of Afghanistan-Pashtuns and Hazara along with their social, cultural and religious conflict. In "The Kite Runner "the Pashtuns the largest ethnic group of the nation, run the country and have the power in their hands whereas Hazara are small in group are slave to them
Pains and Pangs in Anton Chekhov’s Story Vanka
Get PDFThe present paper explores and analyses pains and pangs in Anton Chekhov’s Story Vanka by the means of critical discourse analysis for pedagogical purpose. The study paper was carried out by using secondary resources. In Vanka, with his simplicity and minuteness of details, Chekhov reveals his sense of man\u27s inhumanity to man. Poverty, widely discussed in Marxist ideologies, is a curse to majority of school age children. The school age child Vanka is not exception anyway.