Regaining Authenticity: A study of Rosie’s character in R.K.Narayan’s The Guide

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Dr. Tanu Gupta ◽  
Ms. Himani Aggarwal
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Freedom Of Choice

This research paper tries to analyse the character of Rosie in the novel, The Guide by R.K.Narayan. It traces the transition in her character from inauthenticity to authenticity. The objective of this paper is to bring out how Rosie involves inauthentically with Marco and Raju but her role as ‘Nadini’ led her to embark a new journey towards authenticity. For existential philosophers, Inauthenticity means lack of oneself, when one is not in accordance to one’s personality, freedom and choices. If anyone doesn’t commit fully in the role allocated to oneself, he establishes himself as an inauthentic person whereas authenticity is the condition when one is honest to oneself, having freedom of choice and gracefully takes the responsibility of that freedom and moreover respects other’s freedom

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.

scholarly journals Sensibility of the Novel “The God of Small Things” Personifies Realities where Meaning Plays the Protagonist

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Imam Alam Khan
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Figurative Meaning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Small Things ◽  
Local Languages

<p><em>The novel, “The God of Small Things”, is a Booker Prize winner fiction. It is obviously a thought-provoking novel with an apparent viewpoint. It is</em><em> </em><em>a novel by Arundhati Roy, an Indian</em><em> </em><em>writer. The novel is a story of stories where conflicting ideas of various subjects play vital roles. The subjects appear to be really striking. The style is marvelous. The plot construction is excellent, and the characterization is superb. Language is unique. It’s a worldwide acclaimed novel. The novel speaks on subjects like love, madness, joy, cast-discrimination, women’s exploitation and most importantly the conflict between the Laltain (lantern), the big people, and Mombatti (candles), the small people, which represent the class antagonism. All these antagonisms transform into a meaning. The novelist projects so many meanings together and tries to weave a story on Ammu, the protagonist of the novel. She has created a world where the readers feel the conflict between the social antagonisms and emotional meanings.</em><em> </em><em>The novelist, Arundhati</em><em> </em><em>Roy, has tried her best to evolve a literal as well as a figurative meaning of emotions. The readers feel spellbound emotions when they start reading the novel and pass through the strong throng until they finish the novel. The novelist succeeds in making her readers feel a trance. They emotionally find themselves in a pang of emotions which remains until the end of the novel. Though the novel is full of many obscurities where the readers fail to understand the obscure images and local languages in the novel, yet they feel satisfaction at the end as it discusses sensibility of the society.</em><em> </em><em>The reality apparently transforms itself into a crystal clear meaning of life which is very vital to the novelist as well as to the readers. The meaning of life, reality, appears like a protagonist. Hence, the novel under research is under scrutiny about the idea of reality appearing like protagonist.</em><em> </em><em>It is undoubtedly a very successful novel. Readers have liked it very much. The critics have found it interesting. It has been the best seller, too. Thus, this research is trying to find out the answer of the question, Is</em><em> </em><em>the novel really successful in arousing a sensibility? Is the meaning of life appears life-like? Does it personify reality of life? Consequently, this research paper has tried to find out the answers for the posted queries. </em><em>Moreover</em><em>, the obvious answer is, yes it does. It personifies the realities of the tragedies of the protagonists: Ammu and Velutha.</em></p>

scholarly journals Exploring the Id in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926)

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-38
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Excessive Drinking ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Pleasure Principle ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Sun Also Rises ◽  
Psychic Energy ◽  
The Sun Also Rises

This research paper focuses on exploring the id in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926). From Freudian prospective, id, ego and superego are three parts of human psyche or mind. The id or pleasure principle is dominant throughout the novel. The instinctive and impulsive urges of the id ruin the ego and superego of the characters. As the characters strive to forget the traumatic past of the war, they indulge in excessive pleasure as free sex and excessive alcoholism. The deep trauma of war rooted in the unconscious of the characters, makes their lives like a hell. Consequently, the id strives for gratification and pleasure for removing the trauma from their minds. Brett, who is the heroine of the novel, falls to the urges of the id blindly. She recklessly indulges in free sex and excessive drinking. Similarly, Jake, Mike, Bill and Count always seek excessive pleasure in drinking. The characters search for pleasure is the unconscious urge for life instinct and psychic energy. The dominant id suppresses ego and superego as a result it creates neurotic anxieties in the characters.

scholarly journals Postmodernity in Elif Shafak’s “The Forty Rules of Love”

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-428
Author(s):  
Nabila Akbar ◽  
Marium Majeed ◽  
Izza Bilal Karori ◽  
Aamir Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Purpose In Life ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Western Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Quest For Meaning

As the term indicates, postmodernity or postmodern condition refers to social, cultural or economic conditions that emerged in western society after modern age. It can safely be considered as counterpart of modern outlook. This research venture has been undertaken to divulge postmodernity in prevailing social structure through “The Forty Rules of Love” by Elif Shafak. This novel has been scrutinized deeper keeping in view postmodernity. The results unlock depiction of the pop culture, hypocrisy, dual standards, quest for meaning and purpose in life, social follies and wavering personalities by the author. This research paper winds up that the author has, by highlighting postmodern elements in the novel, revealed societal and cultural issues prevailing in present times.

scholarly journals Postmodern Absurdist Critique of Julian Barnes’s The Only Story

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (II) ◽  
pp. 94-100
Author(s):  
Arshad Nawaz ◽  
Muhammad Ijaz ◽  
Khalid Mehmood Anjum
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Philosophical Association ◽  
Postmodern Fiction ◽  
Postmodern Novel

This research paper endeavors to examine the postmodern absurdism as a literary sub genre in postmodern fiction. It delves deep into the concept of absurdism by concentrating upon the characteristics that distinguish it as a postmodern sub genre. Through the analysis of the postmodern novel, The Only Story (2018), this research paper illustrates how the characteristics of absurdism haven impact upon a postmodern society characterized by boredom, meaninglessness, futility, and confusion. It also highlights how different characters, events, and places have been portrayed in the novel to depict the absurdity of human existence. The theoretical paradigm of the research is based upon Thomas Nagel’s Essay “The Absurd” which is about postmodern space of absurdism and was presented in the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division. The study limelight's how the absurd occurrences and bizarre characters found in the researcher's primary text depict the complexity of the postmodern absurd world in both literal and metaphoric dimensions.

Post Colonial Dilemma in Kiran Desai’s Novel “The Inheritance Of Loss”

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Nitin Singh
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Diasporic Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Migrant People ◽  
Different Parts

The research paper sheds light on the problems, difficulties and hurdles faced by the migrant people to the different parts of the world.  The novel “the Inheritance of Loss” written by Kiran Desai.  She is a diasporic writer.  Basically diasporic writers are those who are not living in their birthplace countries but still connect with their birthplace through their writings.  So the foremost concerns of the diasporic literature is to explore the problems of displaced people, their exile, and the consequences.

Godan, The Film: What It Replicates and What It Hides

IJOHMN ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Pallavi Taru Ishwarrao ◽  
DR. Rajpalsingh Chikhlikar
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Independence Era ◽  
Literary Classics

The present research paper compares the novel Godan by Munshi Premchand written in 1936 in pre independence era and the film directed by Trilok Jetly in 1962 in post independence era. It simply underlines the scene, plot, persons and events etc. the cinema replicates or hides. Literature and cinema seems to have one similar motif or seems to work on the similar ground that is to reflect society. Literature doesn’t lie but “not mentioning something” or “saying it in different way” also ruins history. Generally we consider literature as a piece of history and what is written in it, we take it as a reality or truth. And if this literature dosent mentions anything we don’t think it ever exit or nothing worthy of considering. But is this the only truth? isn’t there  not a world beyond literature? There is a very big scenario outside the frame of literature, which the so called literary persons forget to mention.  About the cinema also we have the same formation, we think that what it shows reflects reality or is strongly influenced by the reality. And cinema has one big advantage of reaching out to the largest amount of people. It has the tremendous amount of audience compared to literature. It can influence people in a great amount. The adaptation of literary classics to films has surged as one of the most appealing topics in the twenty-first century in interdisciplinary studies. Literature and Cinema both are an inevitable part like the heart of the society. They are known as the mirror which reflects the true and somehow in some extent the actual image of the society. They are always influenced by and to the society. The book Godan, a masterpiece in which the theme of social evil’s is successfully depicted and marvelously knitted around the novel is all about the sensibility of lack of humanity, famine, poverty and exploitation of Indian peasantry.

Reivew on Punam V. Barbde Research Paper on Arun Joshi’s “The Foreigner” Published in IJELLH Volume Ii Issue Viii December 2014

IJOHMN ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Sourabh Jain
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern Life

Punam V. Barbde is an Assistant Professor in Amravati.  She chose to research on Arun Joshi’s novel, The Foreigner.  I think she chose this topic for her research because it is a hot burning issue in our society where everybody is restless, impatient and agitative.  People have become more and more materialist and selfish.  This trauma, agony, pain and sufferings is explored in the novel, The Foreigner.   In the modern life globalization and modernization, we people have become so self-centered, selfish and egoistic that the important ingredients of being a human-being is left far behind.  Ingredients of sympathy, kindness, love, care, and sensitivity is becoming a rare-found species. Money, materialism and me dominates on human minds so much that there is chaos, confusion, and restlessness all over the place. 

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
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.

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