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www.literaryendeavour.com LITERARY ENDEAVOUR Literary Endeavour (ISSN 0976-299X) is a scholarly Refereed journal which publishes articles and notes on English literature, Criticism and the English language. Literary criticism rooted in historical scholarship is welcome, especially if it arises out of newly discovered material or a new interpretation of known material. The chronological range of the journal extends from Platonic period to the present day. For guidance on the preparation of typescripts, please refer to latest edition of MLA Style sheet. The journal is published quarterly in January, April, July and October. For Subscription please contact Dr. R. B. Chougule (Chief-Editor) Department of English Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Sub-Campus, Osmanabad 413501 (MS), India. Payment may be made by Money Order or Demand Draft in favour of Sou. B. R. Chougule payable at Osmanabad. You can also deposit your subscription in Bank of Maharashtra Acc. 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Dr. Bhimrao Bhosale, Department of English, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. 3. Dr. Gangadhar Indoor, Department of English, Government Degree College, Banswada, Nozamabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. 4. Dr. M. C. Zade, Head Department of English, Arts, Science and Commerce College, Naldurg, (Maharashtra), India. 5. Prof. (Ms.) Joan Leela Madtha, Assistant Professor , Department of English , Karnatak Arts College , Dharwar, Karnataka, India www.literaryendeavour.com ISSN 0976-299X LITERARY ENDEAVOUR A Quarterly International Refereed Journal of English Language, Literature and Criticism VOL. VI NO. 4 OCTOBER 2015 CONTENTS No. Title & Author Page No. 1. Lord Byron's Don Juan: The Eastern Context 01-05 - Dr. Norah Hadi Alsaeed 2. Bama's Sangati - An Autobiography of Suppression and Exploitation: A Study 06-09 - K. Aruna Priya 3. A Vista into the Visage of Slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved 10-14 - Dr. M. Vennila 4. Quest for Self in Shashi Despande's The Dark Holds No Terrors 15-17 - Dr. J. Mary Jeyanthi 5. Nayantara Sahgal's The Day in Shadow: A Feminist Perspective 18-23 - Talluri Mathew Bhaskar 6. Panoramic Outlook on Unnoticed History in Amitav Ghosh's Select Novels 24-27 - Ms. A. Raihana Barvin and Dr. P. Madhan 7. Socio-Political Views in Salman Rushdie's Selected Novels 28-30 - Suprriya Karaanday 8. Social Perspectives in the Select Novels of Kamala Markandaya 31-33 - A. Gopalakrishnan 9. Indian Diasporic Literature in English 34-38 - Shantilal I. Ghegade 10. Identity Crisis in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices 39-41 - P. Boomiraja and Dr. G. Somasundaram 11. Taslima Nasrin's Life and Works 42-45 - Mr. L. B. Banashankari 12. Personal Elements in the Novels of Jane Austen - A Reading 46-49 - Ms. A. Sowmiya and Dr.S.Valliammai 13. Shame (Lajja): A Case of Protest Against Religious Fundamentalism 50-54 - Mr. L. B. Banashankari 14. Feminist Perspectives as Delineated in Tagore's Novels 55-56 - Sp. Kasthuriba Devasena 15. The Subjugation of Women in Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084 57-60 - Shinde D.K. 16. Feministic Humanism as Delineated in Indian Dramatic Literature 61-65 - Ms A. Rajina Banu, and Dr. S. Subbiah 17. The Concept of Tragic Hero in Greek Tragedy and English Tragedy in 66-70 The Plays: Oedipus Rex and Macbeth - Mr. Abdo Saeed Hussein Saleh 18. Underpinning the Ideology in Graham Greene's Short Story A Chance for 71-77 Mr. Lever - A Transitivity Analysis - Surinder Kaur 19. Mallikarjun Patil's Short Fiction: An Overview 78-79 - J. S. Deshmukh 20. The Role of Translation in Transmitting Cultural Values 80-83 - Mr. Arvindkumar Atmaram Kamble 21. Changing Role of the English Language Teacher in India 84-87 - Noor Nigar and Dr. S.Venkateswaran 22. Methods of Teaching Drama 88-90 - Dr. R. B. Chougule 23. Influence of Foreign Languages on English 91-93 - Dr. D. Vadivambal 24. Positive Outlook in Life and its Miracles 94-96 - Ms. Joan Leela Madtha 25. English in Pre-Independence and Post-Independence India 97-99 - Somwanshi Chandankumar Jaipal 26. Censorship in Literature 100-101 - Dr. Ferzana Pathan 26. Wrath 102 - Talluri Mathew Bhaskar 27. Eve Teasing 103 - Dr. M. Vennila Literary Endeavour (ISSN 0976-299X) : Vol. VI : Issue: 4 (October, 2015) www.literaryendeavour.com 1 01 LORD BYRON'S DON JUAN: THE EASTERN CONTEXT Dr. Norah Hadi Alsaeed, Assistant Professor, Al Jouf University, Saudi Arabia Abstract This paper sheds light on “The eastern context in Lord Byron's Don Juan. Despite some weakness in structure and form, and despite much mockery, seduction traits, Don Juan is a vast creation in its theme. Always self-conscious of his literary standing, Byron did not neglect to include literary and cultural criticism in this comedic epic. That is to say it is a satirical work in a comic style; it introduces the image of the present state of citizen. Hence it is so difficult to discuss the varied topics in Byron's Don Juan; this paper will concentrate on the image of citizen in the poem. The individual in Lord Byron's Don Juan must practice national identities, where practices of admittance and segregation can form and sustain boundaries and national character. It helps distinguish between homes and away, the uncertain or certain. It often involves the demonization and dehumanization of groups, which further justifies attempts to civilize and exploit these 'inferior' others. In this paper I try to shed some light on something that can almost never be expressed in words. Byron borrowed this truth from the epics of Virgil and Homer; the satire of François Marie Voltaire, Miguel de Cervantes, Alexander Pope, and Jonathan Swift; and the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne. The result is a work satiric in tone, epic in scope, and harshly realistic in its portrayal of personal and national awareness. Key words: Lord Byron's, Seraglio, Gulbeyaz. Introduction Lord Byron is publicly praised as the fashionable, notorious artist among the great romantic poets. Their dynamism has primarily attracted the hearts and minds of more people and also their interest to give freedom for oppressed individuals in all places. Their work mostly personifies the Romanticism in their different shades. The popularity of the Bryon's poems had immensely create as a Romantic hero, commonly termed as Byronic Hero, who is haunted by secret guilt, sophisticated, defiant and free- thinking, although act as a fighter for freedom (Thorslev 1962). Numerous critics observed Lord Byron personally acts as the model to leading the character; therefore, he is called as the Byronic hero. This paper attempted to shed light on ideological conflicts that arises due to the cultural variations of characters portrayed in Lord Byron's Don Juan. Further this paper described the historical settings of Lord Byron's Don Juan. In this paper, I argue that Don Juan as poetic texts, literary commodity, and the cultural event. Don Juan who is a Byronic hero, their trends and attitudes are same to Byron (Therslev 1962). He is proud, impulsive, arrogant, daring and passionate and also he is the important dramatic creation of Byron(Therslev 1962). Moreover, he loved women, but he is not loyal to women. Byron at the time of living in Greece and Turkey created the Eastern affinities which shaded their Eastern stories (Rishmawi 1999), are yet felt in their later verse, specifically in their outstanding artistry. Even though the Eastern tales is the similar story of Don Juan, it pointed out the attitude of Byron toward Juan. As their one of the story part of Eastern tales described the Byron make a clear background and a powerful intention for their involvement as hero along with women and men in Eastern context, their participation as Byronic hero give way to him in revenge and violence, and endures the succeeding feeling of remorse and guilt. Then, the Eastern tales of Byron described the spiritual thoughts throughout his reputational years and intercepted him from going frantic. Byron's cultural involvement is centered on the Seraglio, corruption and the Eastern power symbol and also the more efficient Muslim East in the Western LORD BYRON'S DON JUAN: THE EASTERN CONTEXT 2 invention. The interest of Byron toward the Seraglio is in two levels such as: political and social. Through the social level aspect, Byron evidently revealed that the Seraglio inhabitants, the Sultan, his most lovable wife (Sultana Gülbeyaz), the eunuch, housekeepers, and discloses unreasonable examples that portray the connections exist between them, and also those why they have with the outside world. Such awkwardness is clearly observed in the sensational experience between Juan and Gulbeyaz, the Sultan's attitude to his numerous housekeepers and wives, and also the harem, which is the more reserved Seraglio wing. From the political aspect, Byron indicates the irresponsible in lustful and distinct Seraglio master and slightly criticized himself for the unsuccessful for the attack of Ismail that leads to thousands of honest people's death occurred.