Thesis, B.A. (EL)
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The witches and the female power in Macbeth: challenging patriarchal control through the supernatural
(Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), 2026-04)Feminist readings of *Macbeth* continue to garner curiosity and interest among scholars around the globe. This study examines the representation of the witches in *Macbeth* as embodiments of subversive female power that ... -
A comparative study on the fragility of human bonds in The way of the world and The great Gatsby
(Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), 2026-04)This study offers a comparative analysis of emotional fragility in William Congreve’s *The Way of the World* and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s *The Great Gatsby*, drawing on Marxist literary criticism and New Historicism. It ... -
From victims to agents: reclaiming female autonomy
(Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), 2026-04)Feminine readings of *Woman at Point Zero*, *A Thousand Splendid Suns*, and *The Color Purple* still arouse curiosity and interest among scholars around the world. This comparative study aims to delve into a critical ... -
From valuation to suspicion: how neoliberal economic fundamentalism produces panoptic power in the reluctant fundamentalist
(Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), 2026-04)Literary critics have posited divergent interpretations of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Varying opinions preoccupy mostly the geopolitics of the post 9/11 era, neoliberal capitalism, Orientalism, migration ... -
Women in gothic fiction and their critics
(Independent University, Bangladesh, 2025-12)Gothic novels have developed a reputation of featuring a certain stereotype of women to the extent that the "damsel in distress" is considered a Gothic trope. In this paper, I re-assess the fairness of that analysis by ... -
Upward mobility and the naturalization of household norms in Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghachar
(Independent University, Bangladesh, 2025-12)This thesis examines the relationship between economic transformation, class mobility, and ideological change in Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghochar through a Marxist theoretical framework. The study explores how the family’s transition ... -
Exile and Isolation: Transformation in Oedipus at Colonus
(Independent University, Bangladesh, 2025-12)In the second play of the trilogy, Oedipus the King, Oedipus, solves the riddle of the Sphinx, saves Thebes and becomes its king. Proud and nonchalant, he openly criticized the person who is the cause of pollution and ...
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