Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) a famous American Nobel laureate (1954), is considered the master of art and literature not only of American Literature but also of world literature. The famous novel The Sun Also Rises is one of Hemingway’s major war novels that sets the flags for a generation that endured war and cultural disillusionment. In this novel Hemingway concentrates on the artificiality and desperation of the life bred by the First World War. It deals with the post-war disillusionment and moral disorder that left human being shattered. In its pervasive mood of cynicism and revolt with established values, the novel encompasses many themes starting from war to love and disillusionment from traditional values. The paper sets out to investigate major thematic aspects that are considered to the core of rhe novel The Sun Also Rises. It also tries to examine the effects of war on culture and people.
Preparation for the marriage is a major development task of adolescent's year. Mate selection is the foremost important step towards marriage and is greatly influenced by culture, and family background. The present study was conducted to find out attitude of adolescents towards Mate selection and the effect of gender and professional qualification. For this purpose 60 girls and 60 boys respondents were selected randomly from the two reputed institutes of Kanpur city namely of Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology and Harcourt Butler Technological Institute. The investigation reveals that most of the girls as well as boys wanted that their mate should be well educated, should have the good sense of humor, faithful, good looking and fashionable; girls also give the emphasis to the sense of humor and age factor. And the 2 values between boys and girls were found to be significant at .05 per cent level of significance in Q.No. 1,3,10, 16 related to the well educated (5.217), same profession (4.524), 1-2 years age gap (5.502), faithfulness (5.925) and at 1 per cent level of significance in Sense of humor (11.641).
HIND ARTS ACADEMY
Received: 18.12.
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