Anand lays strain on the demands of the present; he refuses to be bound by fusty convention and orthodoxy. In fact, Anand’s novels convey emotional truths as well as social realities and the beauty of his art of fiction is well realized by way of analysis and interpretation of social problems and of corrupt practices. However social life in India has been entirely revolutionized since then, one cannot say with confidence that casteism is fully wiped off in all the states of India. Untouchable gives a voice to the predicament of the mute humanity in vicious conditions. The agony is not caused by fate but by fellow human and the social ambiance from which the sufferer still have great and enduring hopes for betterment of life. Untouchable is …show more content…
In his work, the conflicts are not resolved decisively, but the possibility of a solution in future is hinted at. Any conflict involves two groups or institutions. So also in Mulk Raj Anand’s novels two polarities are introduced and all the characters fall into either of the groups. In Untouchable the conflict is between the caste Hindus and the untouchables; Coolie presents a class struggle between the haves and the have-not; Two leaves and a Bud deals with the confrontation between British plantation owners and the Indian labourers; Lalu Trilogy portrays different stages in the Indian struggle for freedom. The Big Heart fictionalizes the conflict between capitalists and industrial labourers; Gauri elaborates female protest against male domination and so on. However, the conflict in all these novels is not a clash between the equals; it takes the form of exploitation of a less fortunate and less privileged group by a more powerful and privileged set of individuals. The two groups involved, therefore, turn into victims and victimizers, and the writer’s sympathy for the former becomes …show more content…
He is also convinced of the need to act and urge for a change. This change in Bakha symbolizes the awakening of subaltern consciousness. It was with untouchable that Mulk Raj Anand made his debut as a major novelist. As such, he knew that only by maximum effort in the utilization of one’s inherent artistic gift one could achieve greatness and therefore he directed his head and heart towards it. The novel is the result of several incholate and wild urges that present the mind of Mulk Raj Anand which he reflects thus: ……. The vanity of youth wanting recognition, the Departure from abstract philosophical theories towards the search for philosophical insights faced on the lives of the human beings whom he knew the flesh and the blood: the urge to express oneself at all costs in an absolutist manner so as to explore the ugliness of death in life by deliberately dramatizing even through distortion, the non-human realities which impinged on one from all sides….( 6
The Outsiders is a realistic fiction novel written by S.E. Hinton. In order for every book to have a good plot, it needs one or more conflict. In The Outsiders, there are several hostilities. The conflict doesn’t just happen to Ponyboy, but everyone in the book is affected by opposition. While there are many different kinds of disputes in this novels, the main ones are character versus character, character versus nature, and character versus society.
From start to finish, Death has seen both horrors and wonders. However, in his profession, Death mainly witnesses the horrific parts of life, and he needs the reader to know that he is not immune to the suffering he
Kass Morgan’s The 100 is set three centuries after a devastating thermonuclear war on Earth. Humanity, now living on spaceships in outer space, is currently facing another life-or-death situation – scarce resources. In order to save the Colony, one hundred juvenile delinquents including the four main protagonists Clarke, Bellamy, Wells and Glass, will be sent back to Earth to accomplish one mission: inhabit the Earth once again. Despite evident technological advances, a hierarchy in the Colony is still apparent thus leading to its division into three different ships based on social classes: Phoenix, Arcadia, and Walden, from rich to poor respectively. As the book progresses, the point of views are switched between the protagonists, including
In “On Natural Death,” Thomas appeals to the readers by contemplating the subject of death with an academic approach that includes facts, data, and information. Thomas successfully transforms death from an awkward, emotional subject to a more comfortable intellectual one. This engages the readers by placing contemplation of death and dying within the confines of a more manageable and rational context. His gradual exhumation of death eases the audience into pondering the subject in the absence of emotional stress. The essay transitions from the death of an elm tree to that of a mouse. This is followed by Thomas giving a significant amount of attention to a scientific explanation of death, and then finally the description of the near death experience of a human. This use of an academic appeal moves the audience to a comfort zone with the subject of death and circumvents the common response of avoidance. The reader is simultaneously desensitized to the gravity of subject matter and given permission to consider death and dying without the normal societal negative stigma associated with the subject.
At the end of the novel some major conflicts in the story are resolved which resulted in some major tension between characters. At the end of the novel T. Ray shows up at the pink house to come and take Lily home and T. Ray learns somethings about what Lily has been doing and who she has been staying with. On page 292 it states "The is where my mother came when she ran away from us. August said she was wearing it(the pin) the day she got here." When T. Ray sees Lily and that she is wearing her mother's pin, he automatically gets reminded of Deborah. The memory of Deborah leaves him enraged at Lily and he is in a mental stage where he is not thinking straight. On page 294 it states "He stood over me. 'Deborah,' I heard him mumble. 'You're
Siddhartha Deb writes “The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India to show many different aspects of India. He incorporates the stereotypes people have about India, while also showing how life in India actually is. He is from India, and therefore has an in-depth knowledge of India’s inside information. He shows how India is becoming more globalized while still retaining the complex cultural system of caste and status. Throughout the book, the author encounters different types of people, from the rich to the poor and from the famous to insignificant. Even though some of the people would be considered not important to people who view India from the outside, he shows how they are actually very significant in interpreting the daily lives of Indians all over the country.
The short story, “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, portrays a conflict between a Chinese mother and daughter. Jing-Mei mother, Suyuan, comes to America after losing everything in China. When she came to America, this is where all her hoped lays. She believes that anything is possible and that America is the land of opportunity. Because of this, she has high hopes for Jing-Mei becoming a successful child prodigy. So, Suyuan tries everything she can to find Mei’s talent. First, she tries to make her daughter into a Chinese Shirley Temple, but doesn’t work. Then she tries intellectual tests that were from known magazines, but that doesn’t work either. Finally, Suyuan decides that Mei would be a pianist. Suyuan gathered up her money to buy Mei a piano and
This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections of Indian girls, to see how they emerge in ideological terms. Their journeys from self-alienation to self-adjustment, their childhood struggles against the hypocrisies and monstrosities of the grown-up world, eventually demolishing the unjust male constructed citadels of power that hinder their progress- are the highlighted issues. The point of comparison between the two novels focused on here is the journey of Rahel in The God of Small Things and Sai in The Inheritance from a lonely childhood to a tragic adulthood passing through a struggle with the complex forces of patriarchal society. Both the novels portray the imaginativeness, inventiveness, independence, rebelliousness, wide-eyed wonder and innocence associated with these young girls.
In the play “everyman” death is depicted as something that is terribly feared as no one seemed ready for it, death is perceived as something that takes one away from the pleasures of this world.
The world we are living in, is unfair for all the people that are living here. The society today only notes the rich, famous, strong and the poor, weak are not getting notes by the people. I think the author of the book called The outsider is trying to tell us that life is not fair. My big idea life is not fair for the Outsider is just like the real world the rich is making problems for the poor like buying their homes, jobs, for their own use and making them go live in the street. S.E Hinton will proves that life is not fair in The Outsider. The character are going through some horrible and hard event in the story. Life is not fair is important to the novel because it is relate to the character are that are going through some hard time
The play Everyman may have been written many years ago, but its lessons are still relevant today. Generally, the facts of death are very traumatizing and in fact unthinkable. This leads the modern day Everyman to ignore its significance, dying without acknowledging or reflecting on their lives here on earth. It is based on this fact that this paper aims to show the position of the author of the play “Everyman” regarding death.
on. Also, it told an interesting and exciting story which made it fun to read. I learned alot about how the Mafia conducted it's operation, and what their operation involved. It was interesting to learn how and where they would set up their breweries and how
Literature means which reflects the life. Likewise Adiga has wrote the novels which reflect the day-to-day life of Mumbai. To conclude, Adiga has presented both the novels “The White Tiger” and “Last Man In Tower” with the common themes of corruption, identity crisis, religious belif during Modernization and globalization in India. The main theme presents, the fact of money changes a person to be a murderer though they are a servant or any close relation to anybody. Both the novel has the theme of identity crisis.
In fact, by attempting to glamourize suffering by portraying it superficially, writers may lose the connection with us that appreciates literature. Instead, what we are left with is an over extended attempt to glorify suffering, or hide it within a guise of reality that is too savage to be true. Instead of the appreciative feeling that reality imbues within me as a reader, I am left with a sense of disgust, confusion and dissatisfaction. This feeling almost overwhelmed me while reading Adiga’s “The White Tiger” and it tainted my experience with the book. Adiga had written the novel without any firsthand experience in the rural areas of India to which his main character referred to as the darkness. Instead, being of a higher class, his accounts were based on second or third hand experiences which do not adequately depict the lower class’ realities. I found the following depiction of India’s ghettos both farcically unrealistic and eventually
In conclusion The irony shown in this book about corruption, oppression of the poor, reality of India vs. the images foreigners have of India help portray our understanding of this novel. The corruption shown in the book is the teacher stealing the student’s money and the school inspector getting a question that he asked wrong. The reality of India vs. the images foreigners have of India is shown in the book there was framing involved and no doctors in government hospitals. last but not least is the oppression of the poor is