Archana Gupta (Research Scholar) Department of English and Modern European Languages University of Lucknow Lucknow, India In the paper I have tried to critically analyze Mahesh Elkunchwar’s play “Apocalypse”. In a critical study of the play, the linguistic features of the play linguistic features have been taken into consideration without having any extra-textual details of…
Tag: Quest for Identity
Quest for an Identity in the poems of Mamta Kalia
Shruti Singh Lecturer, BBD University Lucknow The term identity enables us to understand the person, as well as the various roles the person has within each community that she or he is participating in. The concept of identity (as opposed to social identity, or role identity) describes who they are, their feeling, their hopes and…
The Dumb Dancer: A Quest for Identity
Dr. Phani Kiran Assistant Professor Department of English Al-Jouf University Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Abstract The Dumb Dancer is a story of a Kathakali (an Indian classical dance that has highly stylized gesture language) dancer Bhima, who plays the mythological role of Bhima and over identifies himself with the role to the extent of forgetting…
The Quest for Identity: Parsi Culture and Sensibility in the Works of Playwrights Gieve Patel and Cyrus Mistry
Dr. Maya Vinai & Dr. M.G Prasuna Department of Economics, Humanities and Languages. Bits-Pilani (Hyderabad Campus) Abstract This paper closely looks at the works of two Parsi playwrights namely Gieve Patel and Cyrus Mistry who are both candid, confessional at the same time sensitive towards their own community members who are still trapped and burdened…
Quest for Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle
Zeinab Yazdani, Ph.D. Student, University of Mysore, Mysore. and Dr. Devikarani L. Reader in English, University of Mysore, Mysore. Lady Oracle is Margaret Atwood’s third novel which was written in the 1970s and it deals with the woman’s role and condition in a society which is dominated by men. The novel can be called a…