scholarly journals Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain: Divulgence of Characters

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Arindam Patra
Keyword(s):  
Young Lady ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Academy Award

British Guardian Prize winner and thrice nominated for Booker Prize, famous Indian novelist writing in English Anita Desai’s Sahitya Academy Award winning one of the masterpieces Fire on the Mountain published in1977. The book focuses on an elderly widow’s isolation and loneliness as it tells the story of Nanda Kaul who lives in Kasauli and leads a solitary existence. The old lady, Nanda lives alone in a colonial house on a slope. She gives nobody a chance to interfere with her secluded life. She had spent numerous years thinking about her husband, their kids, and numerous grandkids. She has turned into a loner and remains confined from everybody including an incredible grandkid. This is her circumstance until the point that the colossal grandkid touches base on her doorstep. Raka,a young girl who is wiped out and is as withdrawn as Nanda. The child lives in her very own kind of disconnection as she withdraws into a universe of inward dream where she makes undertakings of pursuing snakes, creatures, and phantoms in the serene slopes that encompass her and her incredible grandma. The old lady sees that both of them share things for all intents and purpose however that a noteworthy distinction exists also. Nanda has been a solitary person while the young lady was naturally introduced to that sort of presence. Nanda gradually starts to need to be a piece of the kid's life and needs to impart her reality to her. Her endeavours, be that as it may, seem, by all accounts, to be futile. Her awesome granddaughter will give nobody a chance to enter her life. Nanda is not debilitated and endeavours to associate with the child by imparting stories to her. Anita Desai talks of her writing as simply ‘stories,’ and of herself as a ‘storyteller’. In this very simple way she has beautifully painted the female characters and their sufferings in the novel Fire on the Mountain which is the focused area of this research article.

scholarly journals Marriage is a Mirage

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Dr. Hemanth Kumar Mekathoti ◽  
Dr. Narasinga Rao Barnikana
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Stress ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
Rural India ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Female Writers

Indian female writers attempt to depict the problems of women in the modern society dominated by male chauvinism and in rural India in particular, touching the feministic sensibilities. These female writers handle astonishing variety of themes. Among the women modern writers of fiction Kavery Nambisan occupies a unique place for more than one reason.She has begun her literary career by writing numerous children’s books. Female characters in her novels truly feel that love and marriage are not mere accidents but it is a trap and a cage where emotional stress haunts them through lack of care, bondage and love. The character ‘Shari’ of Kavery Nambisan’s second novel Mango–Coloured Fish (2000), is a young girl, who is caught in a complex, entanglement of uncertainties and disillusionments, and she has different notions about the institution of marriage. Nambisan successfully depicted the contemporary younger generation pre and past marriage dilemmas and ordeals effectively and lively. The protagonist Shari wants to trace out her self-identity and freedom in this world and this is clearly presented in the novel Mango –Coloured Fish.

scholarly journals SOME ILLUSTRATIONS OF FEMALE CHARACTERS IN ATSIZ'S BOZKURTLAR NOVEL

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (76) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
Turkish Woman ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status ◽  
Turkish Society ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Better Than

In this article, the place of Turkish female characters in society is explained in Hüseyin Nihal Atsız's novel Bozkurtlar. The article consists of three chapters; the life of Hüseyin Nihal Atsız, the place of the ancient Turkish woman in society and Turkish female characters in the novel Bozkurtlar. In the first part of the article, information about Atsız's life, literary aspect and political identity is given. In the second part, the place of women in ancient Turkish society is explained in detail. In the third part, Bozkurtlar novel written by Atsız is discussed and Turkish female heroes in the story are depicted considering their various features. These women reflect to the reader as an ordinary woman who can hunt better than her husband when necessary, a young girl who is protected by the laws and who can resist the orders by relying on these rights, a sovereign who has gained the respect and love of her own people or a woman who loves her homeland enough to leave her title. In the conclusion part, it is emphasized that the woman who is the companion of her man in the difficult steppe life in the ancient Turkish society is respected as a valuable being in contrast to other societies in the same period. This article was written to reveal the status of women in ancient Turks. Keywords: Description, woman, Turkish, status, Atsız, Bozkurtlar

scholarly journals Passing over Sisters: Denial of Farhadi’s Unsafe Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1001
Author(s):  
Ma’soome Sehat ◽  
Hossein Jahantigh
Keyword(s):  
Defense Mechanism ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Female Victim ◽  
Unusual Behavior ◽  
The Past ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Beautiful City

Employing semiology to study the academy award-winning director, Asghar Farhadi’s oeuvre up to 2016, this paper wishes to scrutinize his depicted society through the lens of feminism. His female characters’ lifestyle and their way of thinking show they always feel uneasy in Farhadi’s depicted society. It defines woman the same as what other patriarchal societies do, an object in need of protection. In this undesirable condition, women are expected to back their sisters up; however, the opposite is true about nearly all female characters in Farhadi’s cinema. They usually live while denying each other as a sort of defense mechanism, and after Farhadi’s famous accidents, there is always one or more female characters putting the blame on the female victim of the accident, technically speaking, referred to as victim-blaming. This paper wants to seek a psychological answer for this unusual behavior. In this regard, seven movies have been chosen including: Dancing in the Dust (2003), Beautiful City (2004), Fireworks Wednesday (2006), About Elly (2009), A Separation (2011), The Past (2013), and The Salesman (2016).

scholarly journals Resistance through Female Bonding in Tehmina Durrani's Blasphemy

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
Mukti Nath Kandel
Keyword(s):  
Social Setting ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Female Bonding ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of

The present research article analyses the suffering of women and their resistance against oppressive Islamic patriarchy through female bonding in Tehmina Durrani’s Blasphemy. In doing so, it offers the working definition of the term “feminism” as a tool of inquiry. It mainly focuses on the suffering of Heer, the protagonist of the novel, due to her loveless marriage with Pir Sain. It exposes the easy distortion of Islam by so-called hypocritical religious leaders like Pir Sain. The suffering of Heer and other female characters in the novel reveal the problems in the cultural and social setting of the Islamic culture and religion. Heer is repeatedly beaten, raped and humiliated by her abusive husband Pir. Pir forces her to live in the world that he has constructed for her. Her marriage with Pir utterly fails as it turns out to be a source of trouble and repression of her self-satisfaction. When she fails to tolerate severe torture and domestic violence, she decides to revolt against it. This paper concludes that Heer is able to resist sexual abuse and exploitation through female bonding. In doing so, she is able to assert her female selfhood.

Analytical Study of Violence Theme in Victoria Schwab’s This Savage Song

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Aggressive Approach ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Right

This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.

Sub-version of Myth: Portrayal of Karna’s two wives in Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-292
Author(s):  
Yashika Bisht ◽  
Shweta Saxena
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters

Karna’s Wife is the first work of the writer, Kavita Kane who is “trying to portray a small chunk, a small aspect which has not been dealt with yet” in the Mahabharata. In Karna’s Wife, Kavita Kane portrays female characters like Uruvi and Vrushali who are victims at the hands of men and fate and how they still balance their lives and endure it all. Vrushali is the first wife of Karna and her husband married Uruvi and was deeply in love with her. Her rights, his attention, his love, everything is distributed. Uruvi who is Karna’s second wife is constantly seen striving throughout the novel to keep her husband away from Duryodhana’s evil camaraderie because she fears that this alliance will certainly lead to her husband’s catastrophe. It would be very interesting to see how these two women have come out of these gritty situations, faced the veracity and still lived mightily.

Identifying Ethics: Dysfunction as Representation of Societal Relationship in Ian McEwans’s Sweet Tooth

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
A. Yacob ◽  
S. Veeramani
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Code ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Ian Mcewan

In the novel, Sweet Tooth, McEwan has employed an ethical code of conduct called, Dysfunction of Relationship. The analysis shows that he tries to convey something extraordinary to the readers. If it is not even the reader to understand such a typical thing, He himself represents a new ethical code of conduct. The character of the novel, Serena is almost a person who is tuned to such a distinct one. It is clear that the character of this type is purely representational. Understanding reality based on situation and ethics has been a new field of study in terms of Post- Theory. Intervening to such aspect of Interpretation, this research article establishes a new study in the writings of Ian McEwan. In the novel, Dysfunction is not on the ‘Self’ but it is on the ‘Other’. The author tries to integrate the function of the Character Serena, instead of fragmenting the self. Hence, Fragmentation makes sense only in the dysfunction of relationship.

The Monk

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Lewis
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Ghost Stories ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
Black Magic ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Profound Insight

‘He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.’ The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, is overwhelmed with desire for a young girl; once having abandoned his monastic vows he begins a terrible descent into immorality and violence. His appalling fall from grace embraces blasphemy, black magic, torture, rape, and murder, and places his very soul in jeopardy. Lewis’s extraordinary tale drew on folklore, legendary ghost stories, and contemporary dread inspired by the terrors of the French Revolution. Its excesses shocked the reading public and it was condemned as obscene. The novel continues to beguile and shock readers today with its gruesome catalogue of iniquities, while at the same time giving a profound insight into the deep anxieties experienced by British citizens during one of the most turbulent periods in the nation’s history.

scholarly journals Indigenous Water Rights in Comparative Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-402
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Macpherson
Keyword(s):  
Human Population ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Poor Management

At the end of the 2015 Academy Award-winning film The Big Short, which explores the origins of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, a caption notes that the Wall Street investor protagonist of the film who predicted the collapse of the United States (US) housing market would now be ‘focused on one commodity: water’. Water is sometimes described in popular culture as ‘the new oil’ or ‘more valuable than gold’. It is predicted to be the subject of increasing uncertainty, competition, conflict, and even war, as increasing demand from a growing human population and development meets reduced supply as a result of poor management, overuse, and climate change.

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