LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 10 : 5 May 2010
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Claustrophobia in Anita Desai's Cry, The Peacock -
"From Defeat to Disaster"

Deepti Chauhan, M.A., Ph.D.

Claustrophobia

Claustrophobia is from the Latin word claustrum which means "shut in place." In Phobias: A Handbook of Theory, it is defined as: "It is the fear of having no escape, and being enclosed in. It is typically classified as an anxiety disorder and often results in panic attacks."

Obviously, it is an irrational thought. The mind makes a connection that small spaces equal danger, the body follows mind's cue. Resultantly, a person floods with physical symptoms of anxiety - leads to the irrational fear about a certain situation. As it is triggered by a certain situation, it can also be termed as 'situational phobia'.

A person suffering from this condition responds in certain ways: sweating, accelerated heart beat, nausea, hyperventilation and most importantly - a fear of acute imminent physical harm. The cause for this is either rooted in bad childhood experience or, as Lisa Fretscher (2009) describes, it may be due to "warping of an evolutionary survival mechanism."

Claustrophobia - Neurosis in Anita Deasi's Novels

Anita Desai's novels can be examined as the manifesto of female anxieties, woes, sufferings and panic. She remains more concerned with sensations, thoughts and emotions. Her characters are not types but they are individuals. According to N. Sharada Iyer, her characters are solitary beings - "who have retreated or driven into some extremity of despair, and so turned against or made to stand against the general current of life."(258) Moreover, Gajendra Kumar defines: "Desai's themes, characterization and images deal with confinement and lack of freedom." (3) This leads the character towards cabin fever and ultimately towards obsession neurosis which we can depict from her maiden novel Cry, The Peacock.

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Interference of Mappila Dialect in the Standard Malayalam Language - with special reference to the writing performance of Primary School Children | Effect of Environmental Education to School Children Through Animation Based Educational Video | Women as Victors of the Social Milieu in Amy Tan's China | A Comparative Study of the Language Learning Strategies Used by the Students of Formal and Non-Formal Systems of Education in Pakistan | New Vistas in Comparative Studies | Comparative Analysis of MA English Results under Annual and Semester system: Quality Assurance in Pakistan | A Virtual Learning Environment in an ESL Classroom in a Technical University in India | When a School Becomes a Pool - What Can We Do to Make Language Learning Interesting to Yemeni Students | Does Number Affect English Pronunciation? | Shashi Tharoor: Transmuting Historical and Mythical Material into Literary Ideas | The Impact of Working Memory on Text Composition in Hearing Impaired Adults | A Study of the ELT Teachers' Perception of Teaching Language through Literature at the Higher Secondary School and Degree Levels in Pakistani Milieu | Some Aspects of Teaching-Learning English as a Second Language | Challenges Encountered by Teachers in Rural Areas and Strategies to Triumph Over | Variation of Voice Onset Time (VOT) in Kannada Language | A Comparative Study on the Efficacy of Two Different Clinical Language Intervention Procedures | Dilemma of Usage and Transmission - A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Dhundi-Pahari in Pakistan | Teaching Beyond the Regular Curriculum | Claustrophobia in Anita Desai's Cry, The Peacock - "From Defeat to Disaster" | Code Mixing and Code Switching in Tamil Proverbs | A Phonetic and Phonological Study of the Consonants of English and Arabic | HOME PAGE of May 2010 Issue | HOME PAGE | CONTACT EDITOR

Deepti Chauhan, M.A., Ph.D.
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Department of Humanities
Global Research Institute of Management & Technology
Radaur
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Haryana, India
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