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Friday, May 17, 2013

A Quest for Identity Or struggle for personality


 A Quest for Identity Or  struggle for personality
Q: 1 Discuss “A House for Mr. Biswas as a novel describing the protagonist’s painful quest of for identity. Or “A House for Mr. Biswas depicts a classical struggle of the personality against a society that denies it.” Discuss. Or Discuss “A house for Mr. Biswas a novel which blend a sense of human growth with feeling for it’s disintegration.
v Introduction:-
          Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932) has been a constant earner of host of international awards for literature including Booker Prize, Phoenix Trust award and Somerset Maugham Award and Nobel Prize too. In his novel, he explores the tensions of an individual trapped in the such a society through a series of powerful and evocative metaphors. In his novels, ‘The Suffrage of Elviva’, ‘The Mimic Men’ Mighel Street’ and ‘A house for Mr. Biswas’ all have the theme of personal failture. He finds himself disinherited from all traditions and living in a hostile world. It is a great problem for asserting his independence, identity of fulfillment. He says, Living in a borrowed culture, the West Indian needs writes to tell him who he is and where he stands.” In his interview with “Time magazine, Naipaul talks about three fold consciousness of the contemporary world, “an awaking to the natural world, curiosity about man’s presence in the world, taking nothing for granted. “         In the present work, the central character Biswas fate defines the limits of possibility. Naipaul sees in the best West Indian situation its positive and its negative extremities. 


 

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