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Item Two Worlds and the Eventual Tensions: An Analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland(Premier University, Chattogram, 2022-05) Uddin, Syed JashimThis article is an attempt to explore the two worlds experienced by the major characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s (2013) The Lowland. The fiction depicts two paradoxical worlds and the characters cannot help embracing them for social, cultural, political, and ideological reasons. Subhash and Gauri are the major characters in the novel who experience the paradoxicalities in their lives because of their existence in two different countries: India and America. The paradoxicalities are portrayed in terms of geography, culture, personal relationships, and diaspora. Hence, what results is an unavoidable tension that springs from the oppositional experiences lived by them. Moreover, the third major character, Udayan, also attributes a substantial degree of tension to the making up of the plot. This article focuses on the nature of these two worlds and the tensions they create in Subhash, Gauri and Udayan in The Lowland.Item Social Conventions and Libido as Contrapuntal Axes in The Duchess of Malfi(Premier University, Chattogram, 2006-01) Uddin, Syed JashimItem Sin, Guilt and Redemption: A Study of K.Hosseini's The Kite Runner(Premier University, Chattogram, 2019-12) Uddin, Syed JashimKhaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner can be evaluated in the light of theological ideas of sin, guilt and redemption. In the novel, the protagonist commits sin by undertaking activities contrary to the morally sanctioned principles which eventually give birth to a sense of guilt in him for which later, he seeks redemption. Amir, the protagonist, can be taken as a sinner considering his unfair and unjust treatment to his boyhood friend Hassan. He violates the parameters of reciprocal relationship between friends when he overlooks rape of Hassan by the gang and brings theft-allegation against him. After coming back to Pakistan to visit his father's friend Rahim Khan, he discovers that Hassan is Iris half-brother. He also comes to know about Hassan's son, Sohrab, who is held as a captive by the Talibans in Afghanistan. As a way of compensating the maltreatment he does to Hassan, Amir decides to go back to Afghanistan with a view to rescuing Sohrab from the Taliban's captivity. This article examines how Amir commits sin and how he gets his redemption.Item Nature of Obsession: A comparison between Ferdinand and Angelo(Premier University, Chattogram, 2018-07) Uddin, Syed JashimWith their own weaknesses and hypocrisies, Angelo and Ferdinand are the two villains of the two contemporary plays, namely, Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare and The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster where they rule severely without any leniency and marginalize the life of two outstanding heroines of English theater, Isabella and the Duchess by Name, through manipulating their stately positions. Our categorization of Angelo as villain is only half unjust. Though pinning him down to his erotic base, we can call him no less a villain. Ferdinand, however, is a villain complete, though again, compared to the Cardinal he appears to be the lesser one. Measure for Measure and The Duchess of Malfi are catalogued by the Wikipedia under the heading ’English Renaissance plays’ which were written in England between 1576 and 1642 pointing out that the fret one was written in 1603 and The Duchess of Malfi was first performed in 1614 at the Globe Theater in London. The plots of these two plays revolve round these two characters so far as they instigate the evil powers, generate ill motives, and locates sexual obsession as one prime motive of villainy. This paper attempts to show resemblances in the two characters in villainy and sexual obsession towards the two central female characters of the aforementioned plays.