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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