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Australian Commonwealth Literature and
Patrick White’s Selected Novels
The Eye of the Storm and The Vivisector

I. Shree Devi, M.A., M.Phil.


Patrick White 1912 – 1990
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Abstract

This paper first presents some of the salient features of Australian Commonweath Literature and then discusses select features of Patrick White’s novels, especially, The Eye of the Storm and The vivisector.

Patrick White is the most prominent literary guru of the Australian literary circle, and his arrival marked the most important stage in the growth and development of Australian literature. He is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose writing is endowed with comprehensively tackled themes. In this paper, I try to map the Australian Literature and provide some idea of White’s life and literary works. The paper also deals with issues relating to self-deception to self- realization in White’s novel The Eye of the storm. In the novel The Eye of the Storm Elizabeth Hunter shows that pride is self-destructive and woman can be redeemed by suffering. The storm becomes mentor in Elizabeth’s life. She realizes the pausing glory of power, fame and wealth, which fail to bring a sum of satisfaction in life. It cleanses her from all unrighteous practices, negations and self-deception. Another point highlighted in the paper is the Visions of life through art in White’s novel The Vivisector. In the novel The Vivisector describes the complete cycle of human life. It portrays the character of Hurtle Duffield and records repeated sexual involvements of the artist. His character depicts self-realization through spiritual love. He reaches the stage of illumination and tries to find out the relationship between ‘God’ and ‘Artist’. In these novels The Eye of the Storm and The Vivisector, White portrays suffering as a necessity and it is the path of purification that leads to spiritual insight.

Keywords: Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm, The Vivisector, individual for identity, integrity and fulfilment. Australian Commonwealth literature

Commonwealth Literature

Commonwealth Literature today stands for literature in English written in the Commonwealth countries outside the Anglo-American tradition. What is common between the diverse members of the Commonwealth in spite of their different calendars of independence and ethnological culture, political and topographical set-ups is that all these countries share the common colonial experience. Commonwealth literature thus presents a rich variety of aesthetic and cultural experience.

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I. Shree Devi, M.A., M.Phil.
Standard Fireworks Rajarathinam College for Women
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Shreehaarivignesh35dshree990@gmail.com

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