LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 16:2 February 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Quest for Identity in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance

Vijayalakshmi. M.



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Abstract

Rohinton Mistry’s novels reflect interest in the importance of personal and cultural identity. It is obvious that Mistry has well depicted his deep attachment and nostalgia for his homeland. The social and cultural nostalgia helped him to create a sense of loss. He recognizes the consequence of religion and rite in the construction of human identity. Mistry‘s fiction can be read within this framework as the quandary of an individual as he/she seeks to cope with the contradictions of the past and the present, community and self, family, and community. The novels, A Fine Balance throw light on the dwindling Parsi community in India to which Mistry himself belongs and is well informed of their lifestyles, customs and traditions. A Fine Balance is a richly woven novel interweaving the slums of Bombay with the middle- class Parsi lifestyle. Dina, the protagonist, fights for her independence and individuality but she faces the continuous failures and threats by the society. Finally she loses her flat and forced to go to her brother’s home as a servant. The novel also illustrates the deeper insight of political, nativity and struggle of suffering people. It focuses on the deep structure of the individual’s existences of human life. A Fine Balance is taken up for analyzing the human sufferings in which Rohinton Mistry ultimately gives a space of endless sufferings of the individuals.

Keywords: Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Parsi lifestyle, Dina, the protagonist, political issues of suffering people.

Identity Crisis

Identity crisis or a quest for identity is basic to the human world. It is innate in every man. So search for identity is an archetypal and a universal motif in literature of all ages. One of the traits that distinguish man from other forms of life is his quest for the meaning of life, the passion to understand the mystique of universe, a desire to acquire a comprehensive vision of reality.


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Vijayalakshmi. M
Assistant Professor
Government Arts and Science College
Sivakasi - 626124
Tamilnadu
India
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