http://eibrary.ratnarajyalaxmicampus.edu.np:8080/handle/123456789/132 Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:59:15 GMT 2026-01-06T06:59:15Z http://eibrary.ratnarajyalaxmicampus.edu.np:8080/handle/123456789/126 Title: Clash of Classes in Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories Authors: Kandel, Sitaram Abstract: The focus of this research is in the area of clashes in small coterie of family or close circle such as lovers and co-workers determined by economic hegemony or class consciousness in the selected stories of Anton Chekhov. Such a study is important in order to see how have the characters in the stories of Chekhov been psychologically and socially influenced by economic hegemony. The stories selected in this project do not cover the large spectrum of class conflict, production and distribution as loudly discussed from the perspective of Marxism. The research approach adopted in this thesis includes realism intermingling economy and its impact upon behavior. The finding from this research provides an idea that characters in the stories of Chekhov are bound to ruin their sagacity and rational thinking due to economic phenomena. Even the family members cannot be together in some cases. When the poor fail to fight against the rich, they want mercy and love from the rich instead of fighting against the rich. To take a reference, in Chekhov‟s story, “On the Road” Liharev was in the movement of abolition of private property five years ago but later he expects love and kindness from them instead of fighting against them. The main conclusion drawn from this study is that an ideal view of people about good treatment to each other is not feasible in reality keeping economic matter aside. This thesis asserts that classless society as imagined by Marx is a utopian concept because characters‟ tussle in the stories of Chekhov is not only between the rich and the poor but between the poor too. Imposing ideal view about fair treatment to each other without solving fundamental economic problem seems baseless. http://eibrary.ratnarajyalaxmicampus.edu.np:8080/handle/123456789/126 http://eibrary.ratnarajyalaxmicampus.edu.np:8080/handle/123456789/129 Title: Misrepresentation of East in Jhabvala's Heat and Dust Authors: KC, Sunita Abstract: Colonial discourses have created various images to represent the Eastern countries and people as mysterious, uncivilized, unscientific, and so on. It establishes a created form of reality in the readers' mind. It functions as a power to dominate, educate and govern over the non-western countries. Behind every misrepresentation, there lies the motive of colonization and dominate the Orient. Colonial discourses have functioned as power to create hierarchy between east and west. To complete this study, I have derived the concept of Orientalism by Edward Said. The truth of Orient people is often exaggerated and distort by western writer. Jhabvala's novel Heat and Dust, depicting the pictures of India of different period misrepresents the nation. Sometimes the novel paradoxically presents the nation and presents the jumbled, stirred culture from everywhere. Supremacy of Englishness is celebrated to maintain the status quo. Jhabvala is hyped up with Indian culture and gives space for English people to control it but cultural transformation as resulted from colonialism is occurred from everywhere. The narrator, Olivia sometimes feels comfortable in Indian cultures and tradition and Chid adopts Hindu religion voluntarily. While assimilating into different views about India, she creates gap between reality and expressed views. India, of course has lots of brighter sides which is hidden and misrepresented by the novelist. http://eibrary.ratnarajyalaxmicampus.edu.np:8080/handle/123456789/129 http://eibrary.ratnarajyalaxmicampus.edu.np:8080/handle/123456789/127 Title: Orientalizing the colonized people in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels Authors: Dahal, Urmila Abstract: This research entitled “Orientalizing the colonized people in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels” casts light on how the orientalism has relegated non Europeans into degraded level. The nonwestern characters in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels are subjected to various subservience experiences, declaring them as non-human beings because of radical differences in them and their life styles compared to Europeans. This Travelogue presents Gulliver as a representative European and Lilliputians as non-European people. Lilliputians have their own way of living. By misfortune of ship wreck, Gulliver reached Lilliput. There he examines Lilliputians and judge them to be inferior humans who are diminutive to Gulliver not only in context of physical size but also intellectually and socially. http://eibrary.ratnarajyalaxmicampus.edu.np:8080/handle/123456789/127 http://eibrary.ratnarajyalaxmicampus.edu.np:8080/handle/123456789/125 Title: Intra Gender and Inter Gender Discrimination in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale Authors: Manandhar, Sarojini Abstract: This research work aims to depict the inter gender discrimination in Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale. in this novel, Atwood presents an increasingly common concept of patriarchy in which a woman is constrained by tradition to be dependent on men, crippled to realize her own strength. She presents her women struggling side by side because the patriarchal assumption makes them suffer a lot. Almost all the women in the novel go through extreme suffering and exploitation from psychological/social to physical violence. Behind the suffering of these women patriarchal gender discrimination plays major roles. At the end of the novel, Atwood has given them a gesture of defiance against patriarchy. Her women have been portrayed as intelligent, questioning women who are not contented with the injustice against them. So, Atwood’s women raise the question of their way of life consolidated by patriarchy, and look it not only as the site of their oppression at home and in society but also make it a field of battle to vanquish their oppressors. In this sense, The Handmaid’s Tale belongs to a feminist writing which depicts the suffering due to the gender discrimination as well as gives the sense of awareness against this discrimination. http://eibrary.ratnarajyalaxmicampus.edu.np:8080/handle/123456789/125