Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English) by Author "Department of English and Humanities, Brac University"
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The absurd and the caged self: a comparative study on “A Hunger Artist” and The Plague
(Brac University, 2022-01)This paper explores Franz Kafka’s short story “A Hunger Artist” and Albert Camus’ novel The Plague to do a comparison of the texts in the light of absurdism. This thesis is centred around the notion of constitution of the ... -
Adaptation of ELT for online education in primary schools of Bangladesh during COVID-19 pandemic
(Brac University, 2021-05)This research paper observes and analyses the changes adapted to English Language Teaching made to accommodate online learning. Online education has been effective in Bangladesh since March, 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic ... -
Adaptation of the assessment processes and its impact on learners: during and post-Covid19 situation in Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2022-05)In our country, the long-established face-to-face assessment process shifted to an online mode due to the pandemic. However, teachers and the authority could not apply that established method during the remote assessment. ... -
Alice Walker’s discovery of Womanist Zora Neale Hurston: Janie in Their Eyes were Watching God
(Brac University, 2022-05)The paper will touch on Walker’s quest for Zora Neale Hurston, learning about her grave to coming across her grave and most importantly her most notable work Their Eyes Were Watching God. The thesis will focus on ... -
Alternative assessments in the private universities during the Covid-19 pandemic: impact and consequences
(Brac University, 2022-04)This study explores students‟ perceptions and thoughts on the alternative assessments conducted by their respected universities during the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. A qualitative research method was employed to carry ... -
Analysis of the materials of English for Today textbook (class- XI-XII)
(Brac University, 2021-09)The main aim of the English curriculum is to make the learners competent in all four language skills (reading, speaking, writing and reading). However, it is found that Bangladeshi students even after studying English as ... -
Arundhati Roy’s fiction: mapping the micro-narratives of the marginalized
(Brac University, 2019-04)Postmodernism starts with shifting of ideas from modernism. In postmodernism, authors adopt multiple features like historic-metafiction, magic realism, intertextuality and many more. One of the major changes that happen ... -
Ascertaining the concept of “Fluidity” in sexual and gender identity and orientation: a critical analysis of crossing and call me by your name
(Brac University, 2023-01)The LGBTQ community has been marginalized and discriminated against from the very beginning of its origin and is considered a sexual minority. Although they all belong to the same community, their experiences, struggles, ... -
The aspiration to preserve national identity: An evaluative reading of americanah and things fall apart
(Brac University, 2021-01)Adichie’s and Achebe’s use of terms and expressions to describe how race has been significantly affecting the lives of the innocent black people whose only desire is to endeavor their anticipated ambition and desire along ... -
Assessment styles and students’ mental health at Bangladeshi private universities
(Brac University, 2022-12)The onset of COVID-19 has brought about drastic changes in everyone’s lives, especially of the student body. Although students are seen to perform well academically during the lockdown, the social media is strewn with ... -
Attitude towards the new curriculum of class seven
(Brac University, 2023-09)"This research will analyze the attitudes of teachers, students, and parents in class seven according to the newly implemented curriculum. The research will be conducted through the qualitative method. Recently, NCTB ... -
Ayi Kwei Armah: through the lens of an ‘Engaged Writer'
(Brac University, 2024-01)After publishing the first novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Ayi Kwei Armah, a Ghanaian novelist was embroiled into controversy because of his outspoken nature that challenges the conventional African ... -
Behaviors in children with language developmental disorders: its social impact on the parents in Bangladeshi context
(Brac University, 2018-12-05)Behavioral changes and variations are immense among the children with language developmental disorder. Among those behaviors, speech delay is most commonly observed. Due to language disorders, the atypical children carry ... -
Between the divine and the demonic: Dostoyevsky's 'Demons' and 'The Brothers Karamazov' as portraits of Russian Christian orthodoxy, identity and existentialism
(Brac University, 2024-01)Human mind and its conflict with the heart has always been a dominant part of humans as an intellectual being. There are many aspects & phases of existence which humans fail to understand. Modern humans consider themselves ... -
Big brother of the twenty first century: a critical analysis of George Orwell’s 1984 with the movie Snowden and Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma
(Brac University, 2021-09)This dissertation looks at Orwell’s 1984, the movie titled Snowden and the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma with an aim to outline the similarity between Orwellian Big Brother and the social media platform that we ... -
Bildungsroman in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(Brac University, 2021)Bildungsroman novels also known as “coming- of- age” novels deal with subjectivity and the relationship between the self and society. A bildungsroman novel mainly conveys the narrative of a person's cognitive development ... -
Blended teaching technique in the modern educational system: its opportunities and obstacles for tertiary level students of Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2021-09)This study aims to find out the comprehensive meaning of blended teaching, its proper design, and formation with a view to elaborating how learners adopt blended learning with the usage of online and traditional classroom ... -
Boundary between reality and fiction: analysing socio-political influences of a criminal mind in the film, Joker (2019)
(Brac University, 2021-09)For the last few decades, the advancements in visual media have enabled filmmakers to propagate their visions of postmodernist perplexities on the screen, reiterating and reinterpreting their predecessors’ unresolved ... -
Breaking borders: navigating gender norms and realities in Ali’s Brick Lane and Desai’s fasting feasting
(Brac University, 2024-01)Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting are contemporary novels representing the condition of South Asian women both as insiders and as outsiders. As South Asian women writers, both of the novels are ... -
A Caged World: A critical analysis of Queer oppression in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Statovci’s Crossing and Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room
(Brac University, 2022-09)Whether it was acknowledged or not, homosexuality and same-sex interactions existed in every society. In the past, homosexual individuals faced discrimination due to their gender identification in Christian-based ...
