Browsing by Author "Samaia Amjad"

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    A reconsideration of anima, animus and fluidity of gender roles redefined through philip roth’s the dying animal
    (UMT Lahore, 2024) Samaia Amjad
    This study addresses the archetypes of anima and animus and their implicated manifestation in Philip Roth’s novella The Dying Animal. As elucidated by Carl Jung, anima and animus are inherent in every individual, significantly shaping human behavior. The research meticulously examines the manifestation of anima in David Kapesh, the primary protagonist, and animus in Consuela Castillo, the secondary protagonist. It seeks to explore the extent to which these archetypes influence the dynamics of their relationship. Philip Roth’s deliberate utilization of anima and animus archetypes is scrutinized, unraveling their strategic role in navigating the intricate complexities of gender identities within the narrative. The study highlights the subversion of traditional gender roles embodied by David Kapesh and Consuela Castillo, shedding light on how these deviations contribute to character development within the novella. Through an in-depth analysis of character interactions and the representation of gender constructs, this research aims to deepen our understanding of gender dynamics in literature, offering implications for gender studies and literary analysis. The Dying Animal serves as an ideal text for exploring the fluidity of gender roles and the manifestation of anima and animus archetypes. This research employs Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes to investigate these archetypes within the context of the research questions.
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    Tracing repercussions of trauma in Mian Raza Rabbani’s the smile snatchers
    (UMT, Lahore, 2021) Samaia Amjad
    This research tends to study child trauma and its effects on childhood referring to Raza Rabbani’s novella The Smile Snatchers. It discusses that child trauma serves as an unerasable memory associated to traumatic experience and the way it remains a part of their unconsciousness permanently. This study tends to argue that child trauma cannot be expressed but can be identified in the behavioral patterns in childhood that may vary from other normal children. It would also incorporate the basic perception of childhood and how trauma ravages the blissful childhood period, leaving the victims in eternal abyss. The aim of this study is to highlight the aftermath of traumatic experiences on childhood and to highlight how children suffer and continue to suffer, both physically and mentally. The study aims to validate that how a single experience can lead to a permanently disrupted childhood and impose a similar outlook on life as well. The study would trace out the immediate and long-term effects of child trauma on child’s behavioral, emotional and psychological patterns. Using the post structural approach of trauma studies by Cathy Caruth, the researcher will explore the novella with the lens of trauma theory, and its effects on childhood and growing ages. The aspect of the Trauma Theory by Cathy Caruth that, trauma tends to continuously repeat itself, would be focused along with the key features of Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History to support the argument throughout the study.