LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 16:3 March 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Studying the Quest for Survival in the Protagonist Nirode in
Anita Desai’s Voices in the City

Dr. Madhu Jindal


Abstract

Voices in the City, as the title suggests, deals with the voice of anger and visions of fear in the city of Calcutta. These voices, attempting to explore by a process of self-denial, the secret of permanent peace and happiness, are engaged, in their separate ways in charting survival strategies of life. They seek happiness on spiritual terms, not material, which in fact, is the sordidness, the brutality, and the sheer dreariness of the physical world. They see through the dark crust of appearance and experience “The horror! the horror!” of everyday life, more acutely than others. The ugly physical reality is something which they cannot accept. The external world is the antagonist which frustrates them at every moment of their lives. The city of Calcutta, which assumes the dimensions of a living character, thwarts their attempts again and again causing them to wilt under the pressure of life. As a matter of fact, they seem to be living in a pressure-cooker.

Keywords: modern, fear, angst, Joshi, survival

Introduction

Nirode, Monisha and Amla, all are young, intense and talented. Their shared quest for the meaning of life is a sensitive and image-filled experience, yet their responses differ because they are unlike one another. Unlike Cry, the Peacock which is a suffocating nightmare of the tortured psyche of an intense young women, Voices in the City is a measured, matured attempt of a novelist to present the quest of three young intellectuals. They demand an authentic and pure existence, fed up as they are with a false, falsifying world. The theme of the novel is suggested quite early in the novel by Nirode himself in his conversation with David.

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Dr. Madhu Jindal
Associate Professor in English
M.P. College
Mandi Dabwali 125104
Haryana
India
madhugupta.mp@gmail.com
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