LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:8 August 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Materialistic Aspect in Arun Joshi’s The Apprentice

Dr. Mangala Tomar

Abstract

The materialistic world is horrible and everyone has to face it from time to time. This work shows the materialistic aspects of modern world and its hold over man for various reasons.

Dramatic Monologue

The novel The Apprentice is written in the form of a dramatic monologue. The hero Ratan Rathor is a man of double inheritance who feels that his life has descended into a “pile of dung.” In man’s life crisis is bound to occur and he is entangled in the maze of confusion of values and moral anarchy. The young man Ratan Rathor moves from place to place for his job and circumstances force him to shed the honesty and the old world morality of his father; he becomes an “apprentice” to corrupt civilization.

Efforts to Retrieve Innocence and Honour

There are various aspects of life which lead to the selfish attitude, degrading values, corruption, dejection and frustration in the life of Ratan Rathor. The hero Ratan Rathor makes frantic efforts to retrieve his innocence and honour.

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Dr. Mangala Tomar
Jankidevi Bajaj College of Science
Jamnalal Bajaj Marg, Civil Lines
Wardha
Maharashtra
India
mangla.b.tomar@gmail.com
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