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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.02)

 VOLUME 7 , ISSUE - 3  ( MAY-JUNE  2021 )

DHOBI NITIN GANESHLAL & DR. UNNAT PATEL

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The White Tiger is Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning debut novel, released in 2008. The current novel depicts a side of Indian culture that is withheld from society. There is a massive chasm between rich and poor India since globalization. A small group of wealthy individuals wishes to exert power over India's vast population. The writer has deftly provided the reader with the existence of servitude, faith, injustice, social caste structure, and poverty in India. This novel is a success story told by the lead character, Balram Halwai, in a letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Balram Halwai. Although Balram was born and raised in a low-income family, he does not wish to carry on his father's conventional company. He hopes to be clear of any societal obligations enforced by servitude. He expects to be clear of Rooster Coop in order to become a prosperous businessman. He avoids any impediments along his road to prosperity. He rises from his sweet-maker caste to become a wealthy businessman. He repays his family's debts and also kills his boss, Mr. Ashok. He opposes both relatives and social controls on him. To the opposite, he rationalizes his desperate desires for dominance and pelf without any regret for his heinous acts. In terms of his efforts and achievements, he has earned the moniker "White Tiger," which is only seen once in a lifetime.

Keywords: Postcolonial, dilemma, servitude, social structure, Rooster Coop, deprivation, subjugation

CHHAVI MISHRA & DR. S. V. BANKAR

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The Old Man and the Sea is one of the masterpieces of Hemingway. The story though is a fiction is based on real event and thus holds much truth. Hemingway while wandering in Cuba heard of this event and wrote an amazing book inspired by it. The writer has used many symbols in this novel which increases the artistic value of the book. It is a book full of powerful emotions and depicts a true picture of every man’s struggle in life.

Keywords-Symbols, Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, Manolin, Old man, Sea, Fish, Fishing, Marlin, Mast, Harpoon, Shark.

S. DEVIGA & DR. B. VISALAKSHI

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Women have played a variety of roles in all cultures, including wives, sisters, and mothers, all while being oppressed by paternal society. In Indian culture, the father or eldest male is the family's head. This head is assessed during the male line, and as such, it becomes dynamic with conjugal issues exclusively in joint families. The aim of this paper is to examine the portrayal of women in Taslima Nasrin's novel Lajja. The misfortunes of female characters are depicted in the integrated book, either as a result of religious commitment or as a result of male dominance in the home.

Keywords: Depiction, numerous, misfortune, domestic and conjugal.

DR. GANGA NAND SINGH & SAGORIKA SEN

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Literature has always acted as a mirror to the society. As the human society evolved slowly and gradually, literary writings, especially the novels played a pivotal role in reflecting and expressing the social scenarios and defining the human psyche. Women are the most integral part of the social discourse. Since centuries, they have strived hard in search of their true identity and worth. Turning through the pages of literary history, we can easily trace the footmarks of the transformation in the position of the females through societies and ages. Women writers and critics have given a glimpse of the social norms and structures prevalent during their times through their writings. Jane Austen is one such poignant writer from the Romantic Period of English Literature who broke apart from the traditionally accepted storyline through her youthful spirits and portrayal of strong female protagonists, who could think for themselves and take their own decisions. Born in a society that hugely discriminated between the rights given to men and women, Austen, since her childhood developed an internal anguish against the unjust social system. This even resulted in her being unmarried throughout her life and continued writing as a profession to be financially independent. Austen always advocated marriage in her novels, but she believed in marriage for love and not for gaining social status. Women during Austen’s times were expected to be submissive and timid. They were considered incapable of thinking wisely and hold own individuality. Her novels parodied the then conventional novel plot of love, marriage and courtship through youthful playfulness and subtle irony. Her female protagonists were the heroes of her novels; they were progressive as well as headstrong. They did not believe in social conformity in the male dominated society.

Keywords -: Feminism, identity, society, male-dominated, novels, satire

SIDDHARTH N. KALE & DR. SHASHIKANT R. MHALUNKAR

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The production of the gendered spaces is a hierarchical and oppositional system in the realms of public space of male domination over the private space of female subordination. The male gender is always considered as a superior than the female gender. Women always fight to get the proper place in society but male gender always dominates them to show their supremacy. Space and gender are interrelated to each other as both the phenomenon has connected with the power relations. The relation between masculine space and feminine space create the contradiction in both public and private realms that touches the gender concerns. It is considered that gender is the synonym for sex, as it identifies the different contradictory sexes i.e. man and woman. But according to the varied perspectives of the gender, it is quite different and dissimilar to the concept of the sex because sex refers to the biological realities of the two opposite genders-male and female and gender refers to the socially constructed phenomenon. The biological reality and socio-cultural perspective of the masculinity and femininity create the ambivalence in two opposite sexes. The present paper attempts to analyze the construction of space and gender issues in Anita Nair’s The Lessons in Forgetting.  

Keywords: Space, Gender, Feminine Space, Masculine Space, Male Domination

DR. NAGNATH TOTAWAD

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William Golding is known as a prominent writer of English fiction. He is judged as an incredible fabulist, a symbolic essayist or a mythmaker. In this regard his inclination is to be called as an author of 'mytho poetic control'. His books are translated in the light of philosophy. Golding’s vision about human instinct is very well reflected in his fictions, in a general sense he has confidence in God, yet he questions if God has faith in him or in humankind. His fictions are brimming with Christian imagery yet he bids to each sort of faith in his fiction. His propensity is toward the submissive and the soul. He never endeavors to instruction. There is no agreement in his fiction. He opens human instinct for the reader so well that the reader is stunned subsequent to perusing any Golding epic and starts to scrutinize his own tendency and his job in the unceasing catastrophe on the earth-organize.

Keywords: Imagery, Christ, good, evil, loss, innocence, chaos, experience etc.

ZUHRA A. ALMAQTARI, AHMED A. Q. MOHAMMED; AHMED A. A. SAEED

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The present study aims to assess the language components of ELT textbooks of secondary schools in Yemen. The population of the present study is the teachers of secondary schools in Yemen. The study uses a sample of 100 teachers teaching 11^th and 12^th grades of secondary schools in Yemen. The study utilizes a questionnaire survey which is consisted of 2 pages and 23 questions related to language components. All questions are scaled based on five point-Likert scales ranging from poor (1), fair (2), average (3), enough (4), and good (5). Descriptive statistics, including frequency analysis, mean, minimum, maximum, normal distribution, and figures, are used to estimate the results. The results reveal that teachers perceive average materials of grammar. In the same context, the results indicate that teachers perceive fair materials of pronunciation. Likewise, the results found that teachers perceive fair materials of vocabulary materials. Similarly, teachers perceive fair materials of exercises and activities. The present study contributes to the strand literature of ELT in Yemen. Very few studies have been conducted in this regard in Yemen. Accordingly, the present study adds to the existing stock of knowledge of ELT in Yemen. The results of the present study open an insight for curriculum developers, teachers, and educational authorities to consider the weak points in the textbook of secondary schools in Yemen and take the necessary actions for improvement.

Keyword: Grammar; Pronunciation; Vocabulary; Exercises and Activities; ELT textbooks; Secondary Schools; Yemen.

DR. PAWAN KUMAR

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‘Humour’ and ‘wit’ are the extremely challenging assignments Githa Hariharan chooses to take on dashingly in her fiction in order to set her expression free of the monotonous strides and also to deride the social follies and unjust ideologies. In her fiction one would never fail to locate the themes as varied as that of corruption, nepotism, false pride, human arrogance, adultery and decline in moral values being ridiculed robustly and hammered upon through this extremely challenging approach. The present article seeks to critically examine as to how these devices (‘wit’ and ‘humour’) are emphatically employed by Githa Hariharan in her internationally acclaimed novel When Dreams Travel striving not only to explore the obscure terrains of human psyche but also to deride the self-centered human life that, in present day cosmopolitan society, stays eventually to be deprived of ethical values. An effort has been made to evaluate as to how, by means of these weapons, the author storms the human follies and the unjust ideologies, without, however, compromising with the due clinical efficiency.

Key Words:  Epigrammatic, humour, wit, bondages, cosmopolitan, frivolities, shallowness, 

JAYSHRI ARJUN JADHAV

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Present research paper centers on the evolution of new woman in India. New women presented in the select novel of Shobha De entitled Sethji. Various domains of her growth i.e. social, political, and psychological remain the focus of the present investigation. Shobha De provides complete freedom to her female characters to overcome their difficulties whether they had to sell their souls. The protagonist Amrita life, her predicaments and the passion to achieve the power has been described in this research paper. The situation and condition in her life were so adverse but she accepted the unalterable facts of life confidently. She strives against the ravenous male – dominated society. She breaks down all restricted unlawful boundaries by compromising her virginity with the lustful maneuvers to sethji and assumes her goal to become powerful women.

Keywords: Dark, immoral, constructive, politics, marriage, remarriage, miserable, man –women relationship, lust, womanhood etc.

KRISHNA GANESH BHOSLE

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This Present research paper spotlight the marriage and extramarital relationship in the novel of “This Love that feels Right...” by Ravinder Singh. It is the story of Naina Singhania. She is a twenty-five-year-old married young woman in Indian a middle-class family. Her husband is a very busy businessman in real estate. He has no time for family. At the last moment of his honeymoon, he postpones the business deal. Naina breaks all of these social restrictions, custums and joins Gym for her fitness and weight loss. She wears a fashionable and sports bra in the Gym. She got a chance to love after marriage with another person who is not her husband, who is a gym trainer Aarav. This Novel shows a mirror of Indian society in the present era. Novelist Ravinder Singh portrait Indian middle-class society young common women and their wish and desire about her life. Naina finds the real meaning of marriage and true love and various aspect of life. The present research paper aims to study marriage and extramarital relationships in Ravinder Singh’s novel “This Love that feels Right…”

Keywords:  Marriage, Extramarital relationships, Gym, Society, Attraction.

SAVITA SARDAR PARDESHI

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This paper attempts to bring out the position of women in the plays of Girish Karnad with reference to his plays Hayavadana and Nagamandala. Bringing out the ideas of Karnad on women and his views on this paper attempts to bring out the position of women in the plays of Girish Karnad with reference to his plays Hayavadana and Nagamandala. Bringing out the ideas of Karnad on women and his views on their role in the society, this paper examines how he presented the characters of women. With the help of instances taken from the selected plays, this paper gives a clear view of Karnad’s mind towards women. role in the society, this paper examines how he presented the characters of women. With the help of instances taken from the selected plays, this paper gives a clear view of Karnad’s mind towards women.

Key words: Feminism, patriarchy, courageous, dominating, liberty, strength

ADHAV SHAMAL BALASAHEB

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The present aim at studying Nigerian women in the selected novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s selected novels. This research examines how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie portrays the place women characters of the Nigerian society in to the selected works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The portrayal of women in the works of Adichie is relevant to feminism, racism and womanism too. In the works of Adichie, women relentlessly struggle to achieve much desired freedom from the rules of tradition, sociopolitical and economic disempowerment, male oppression and racial distinction

Key words: Purple Hibiscus, Nigeria, Sexism, Gender, Psychology, Womanhood, Revolt Half of a yellow Sun ,Americanah ,We Should All Be Feminists Etc.