Dr. Pratibha Devane

Poverty, Addiction, and Social Marginalization in Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain (2020) portrays the lives of working-class people in 1980s Glasgow against a background of industrial decline, unemployment, inadequate housing, and limited social support. Focusing on Agnes Bain and her son Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, this paper examines h...

Between Life and Possibility: Existential Anxiety and the Search for Meaning in Matt Haig's The Midnight Library

This research paper examines The Midnight Library through an existentialist framework, with particular attention to existentialism, possibility, freedom and choice, loneliness, regret, and the search for meaning. The paper argues that Haig transforms the supernatural concept of t...