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ThesisItem Open Access NATURE IMAGERY IN THE WORKS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY(DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Chitamber School of Humanities and Social Sciences SAM HIGGINBOTTOM UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCES ALLAHABAD 211007, 2018) Denis, Angela; Verma, Dr. (Mrs.) Shivani S.This thesis is concerned with the nature imagery in the works of Ernest Hemingway. The study deals with how Ernest Hemingway has handed this subject differently than the other American prose writers and poets. The researcher was surprised that no other authentic study had been conducted over such an important and obvious aspect of the writings of Ernest Hemingway. The study is based on nine novels of Ernest Hemingway. All the novels demonstrate his sensitivity to light, colour, form and atmosphere. Mostly writers and poets write about the beauty of nature that gives pleasure and positivity to the readers and inspire them in some manner, but Ernest Hemingway dealt with the dark side of nature. He connected the different shades of nature with life, death, wars, bullfights etc. A reality which was sad, cruel, bloody rough and true. The aim of the researcher was to study nature imagery and its different aspects which were related to human emotions and the way Ernest Hemingway symbolized nature to form the essence of the story line in all his novels. The study moves through six chapters from introduction to conclusion. First chapter is introduction that gives a glimpse of the people and incidents that influenced Hemingway’s work – A great amount of credit went to his parents, friends and the circumstances that he experienced during that time. The second chapter tells us about the age and trends that existed while he started his career as a novelist. It tells that how the post war (World War I and II) scenarios and the economic depression influenced the writers of the lost generation. The third and fourth chapters deal with nature imagery as the driving force in all his novels. The description of war and economic depression combined with the symbolic description of nature formed the essence of the storyline in all his novels. In the fifth chapter, Hemingway beautifully portrays human emotions through different aspects of nature. Rain, bullfighting, duck hunting, alcohol, sex etc. everything was connected to human emotions. The scene of fishing boats, brown nets, wicker traps, experiencing safari seeing animals etc. all made him happy and he felt very close to nature which also gave him immense satisfaction, inner joy and peace. The conclusion brings out the facts reached out in this study through observation and analysis of the novels and their characters. It is in this chapter that the researcher has proved that Hemingway embodied the world of external realities in his novels. He was always one with nature and always incorporated this love with his other love, writing with great perfection. The study concludes that nature according to Ernest Hemingway was simple and beautiful. It was a place where you could get away from all the complications life had to offer. He blended naturalism and symbolism in the most beautiful and realistic manner. Thus in the last chapter, the researcher concludes that Hemingway’s way of presenting nature was very interesting and different from the way other poets and authors of the romantic age dealt with this subjectThesisItem Open Access A Study of the Problems of Libyan EFL Learners in Understanding the Etymology of English Words with Reference to Greek, Latin, French, and German Origins(Chitamber School of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences SAM HIGGINBOTTOM UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGY and SCIENCES ALLAHABAD, U.P. 211007, 2019) Eljawade, Salem Khalifa; Stanley, Dr. (Mrs.) ApsaraThis research work focuses on the challenges encountered by the Libyan learners of English in understanding the words borrowed from Greek, Latin, French and German origins that constitute a considerable part of English vocabulary. Libyan learners are brought up in a distinctive socio-cultural and educational setting that casts a recognizable influence on their learning of English which is taught as a foreign language. Identifying the challenging sides in learning English, this study clarifies these problems and explains them to ease learning English vocabulary among Libyan English learners. This research studies the problems faced by the Libyan students in the understanding of English vocabulary. The researcher takes into account the review of literature which presents a good deal of ideas about the research undertaken in this field till now, and he also presents a clear view of the plan to be adopted to take this work. This thesis centers on etymological studies that turn out to be very useful to the sets of learners similar to the target group. The researcher clarifies the methods and materials that have been used to carry on this research work. It justifies the method of the questionnaire, data collection, and its analysis that finally pave the way for a reliable conclusion. This study analyzes the data that has been got and shows the fact if the Libyan learners encounter problems in learning the origins of English words or not. The data has been presented in tables and figures to make the facts pretty clear. Two tools are used in the study (a test and a questionnaire) that cover up all sides related to the topic chosen for this research. Finally, the researcher presents the analysis of data and summary that discussed in chapter four, and he also presents conclusion and recommendations. The study also highlights the techniques which are to be used in teaching English vocabulary more effective. The findings of this research may have far-reaching influence if its recommendations are implemented effectively by the ministry of Libyan higher education, and this work confirms the fact that much is required to be done in this academic direction to get better results.ThesisItem Open Access AN ASSESSMENT OF WOMEN CHARACTERS AND THEIR ROLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUANCED THEMATIC PATTERNS IN THE NOVELS OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE(Department of English and Foreign Languages Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences (Formerly Allahabad Agricultural Institute) (Deemed to be University) Allahabad-211 007, India, 2016) DATTA, NABASREE; Verma, Shivani S.Liberty and censure became an integral part of the lives of Indian women who refused to buckle themselves under the pressure and succeeded in changing their own lives and lives of those who were dependent on them. In literature, it was being portrayed by majority of writers, among them, Bharati Mukherjee, became the live example of a free woman who through her novels, portrayed the struggles of immigrant women for achieving their identity. Bharati Mukherjee provides readers to take the challenge boldly against the traditional frame work of the society and to turn her way towards a new consciousness of her own worth and place in the society. Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian-born American novelist who started her writing career only at the age of three. Mukherjee achieved her fame with the novels like, The Tiger's Daughter, Wife, Jasmine, The Holder of the World, Leave It to Me, Desirable Daughters, The Tree Bride and Miss New India. This famous novelist achieved many prestigious awards during her splendid creative and professional career. At the age of globalization, immigration becomes a burning issue for most of the immigrant writers where the world is shrinking in to a global village, the differences melt into similarities. Culture and groups outside the dominant ideology try to find out ways to put forward their Page 8 diversity. In the earlier times, the main purpose of immigration of the third world people was only depending on their vocational problem. But in the present time vocational problem mingles with the desire of avocation for the purpose of crossing the boundaries of native land. But in the cases where cultural dissimilarities are much sharper in terms of racial, linguistic and religion, the predicaments get hopelessly complex for immigrant to cope with the new circumstances. The adjustment problems of the immigrant women in an alien society and their phobic mental condition due to political, gender and racial biasness become vital issues in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee. The women characters of her novels are very familiar and the novelist has very successfully portrayed them in the pre-existing context which really inspired the researcher to do her research with the purpose that the study would be a modern work in the field of literature and would render into helping hands for the researcher to do their research in this area.ThesisItem Open Access An assessment of women characters and their roles in the development of nuanced thematic patterns in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee(Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences (SHIATS), 2016) DATTA, NABASREE; Verma, Dr. Shivani S.Liberty and censure became an integral part of the lives of Indian women who refused to buckle themselves under the pressure and succeeded in changing their own lives and lives of those who were dependent on them. In literature, it was being portrayed by majority of writers, among them, Bharati Mukherjee, became the live example of a free woman who through her novels, portrayed the struggles of immigrant women for achieving their identity. Bharati Mukherjee provides readers to take the challenge boldly against the traditional frame work of the society and to turn her way towards a new consciousness of her own worth and place in the society. Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian-born American novelist who started her writing career only at the age of three. Mukherjee achieved her fame with the novels like, The Tiger's Daughter, Wife, Jasmine, The Holder of the World, Leave It to Me, Desirable Daughters, The Tree Bride and Miss New India. This famous novelist achieved many prestigious awards during her splendid creative and professional career. At the age of globalization, immigration becomes a burning issue for most of the immigrant writers where the world is shrinking in to a global village, the differences melt into similarities. Culture and groups outside the dominant ideology try to find out ways to put forward their Page 8 diversity. In the earlier times, the main purpose of immigration of the third world people was only depending on their vocational problem. But in the present time vocational problem mingles with the desire of avocation for the purpose of crossing the boundaries of native land. But in the cases where cultural dissimilarities are much sharper in terms of racial, linguistic and religion, the predicaments get hopelessly complex for immigrant to cope with the new circumstances. The adjustment problems of the immigrant women in an alien society and their phobic mental condition due to political, gender and racial biasness become vital issues in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee. The women characters of her novels are very familiar and the novelist has very successfully portrayed them in the pre-existing context which really inspired the researcher to do her research with the purpose that the study would be a modern work in the field of literature and would render into helping hands for the researcher to do their research in this area. Therefore, this study is significant in the context of age of globalization and immigration. The major objectives of the research are as follows: 1. To find the thematic patterns in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee. 2. To study the influence of oriental and occidental culture on the women characters in her novels. 3. To explore the role of female characters in the development of the story. In order to obtain the objectives, researcher considered first seven novels of Bharati Mukherjee, and methodically explored thematic patterns, considering both the major and minor themes. Moreover, the influence of cross cultural conflicts in the immigrants‘ life and their sense of identity crisis were critically analyzed, and finally, role of women characters in the development of nuanced thematic patterns were explored in the research work. The thesis is arranged in five chapters where the first chapter introduces the novelist, Bharati Mukherjee, emphasizing her family back ground, academic and professional carrier and literary canon, back ground of the research topic, the major objectives and very brief outline of the context and plot of each of the novels. The second chapter is oriented to find the brief story line, the themes and thematic patterns in the novels. The third chapter is based on the influence of native culture in the lives women protagonists who settled in foreign land and illustrates the conflicts of Oriental and Occidental cultures that provide the altered shapes of the women characters in her novels. The fourth chapter is dedicated to explore the role of female characters in the development of each of the story. The fifth chapter is about conclusion that displays the major findings of the study. Mukherjee in her first novel, The Tiger's Daughter, expressed her own expatriate consciousness through the experiences of her heroine Tara Banerjee. In Jasmine, the female protagonist travelled several divergent geographical locations like neonomads and passed through many transformations showing the protagonist‘s sense of rootlessness and continuous search of identity. The Holder of the World, immigrant fiction, is based on the issue of immigration and identity crisis which was based on personal observations, autobiographical details and oral histories. In Leave It to Me, the protagonist being haunted by the crisis of her own genetic identity in the society she left her foster parents to find out her biological parents. Desirable Daughters discusses the burning issues of immigrant life, quest for identity and the difficulties of cultural assimilation. The Tree Bride attempted to find out the source of a woman consciousness and the making of an identity that transgresses boundaries in order to give it a new route. Mukherjee depicted different aspects of the cultural, political, psychological, gender and racial discriminations, problems and sufferings of Asian immigrant women. The novelist magically expressed her own experiences through short stories and fictional works and delicately depicted problems of immigrants and racism as an important feature of her writings. Most of Mukherjee's characters are Indian women who are the victims of racism and sexism, often driven to desperate acts of violence after realizing that they can neither be fit into the culture of the West nor in the Indian society they left behind. She specially sympathized on women giving illustrations of the predicament in the contemporary society and the distorted psyche of those immigrants who have been surviving in the conflict of traditional values. The women characters of her novels are very familiar and the novelist successfully portrayed them in the pre-existing context and they played the major role in development of the nuanced thematic patterns in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee.