These practices are all the more shameful as they are associated with academics and intellectuals, who should naturally join forces to help establish an inclusive environment which tolerates diversity, to poke away at the clogged channels of communication between people from all walks of life and to signpost the direction for the public. While tackling these concerns, the present paper laments the prevalence of base and biased practices. A case in point is Malcolm Bradbury’s university novel Eating People Is Wrong (1952), which, homing in on the intricacies and intimacies of academic life, details the struggle of a working-class student called Louis Bates to gain tolerance and prominence in an inhospitable environment populated by pretentious and allegedly superior characters. As is the case with cultural, historical and socialist studies, fictional works tend to attend to the tensions and pretensions marking social class relations. Like race and gender, social class continues to engender controversy and to engage political and intellectual debate. Though the flagship of feminism had been a century old, the implicit effect fails to show up in the real world forcing the movement to get cut in waves as an analogy to unprecedented tale of unfinished agony.Hélène Cixous, a second wave feminist, envisions women‟s libidinal economy different from that of male‟s libidinal economy and pertaining to this feminism, However, the contemporary world‟s conception of women is framed through ecclesiastical disciplinary conception with concurrent streams of feministic thought process both working adjunct to the antecedent image of women. DH Lawrence, a prominent unabashed writer of this postwar and pre-feminist century evolves on the threshold of the concept of new woman with works like “Women in Love.” Emancipation of women from patriarchy is the most fantasized concept in the realm of all waves of feminism and Lawrence‟s view of pre-war women, as aptly pointed out by Hilary Simpson, suggests that he sought to have harboured a firm faith in woman‟s capacity to disrupt the order of manly accord. Dismantling all the previous vestiges of moral and social values, an era of postwar begins with highly mechanized and individualistic mindset.
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