LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         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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The Conflict of Good and Evil in R. K. Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi

M. Jagadeswari, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar

R. K. Narayan grapples with some fundamental questions about good and evil in Malgudi. He also seems to find a solution to them in this imaginary but realistic town. Narayan’s works reveal him as a writer who has a very healthy and balanced vision of human life. In The Man-Eater of Malgudi, R.K.Narayan brings out the polarity between Nataraj, the meek person and Vasu the egoist. To demonstrate this, R. K. Narayan has used the ancient myth Bhasmasura in a creative way.

The Two Opposite Forces

Nataraj is the owner of a printing press in Malgudi. Vasu is befriended by Nataraj and stays in the attic of the press. Nataraj is a meek, gentle-natured person. He is passive and devotional but Vasu is an evil-natured person. Vasu is a taxidermist. Vasu’s activities of killing and stuffing animals increase and even the stairs are filled with stuffed creatures. The brutality of Vasu’s fraud strikes Nataraj but is frightened to ask Vasu to vacate the attic. He feels like tongue-tied before Vasu. Nataraj faces a difficult time with sanitation. Nataraj, a timid person, suffers a lot because of Vasu’s arrogant nature. The peaceful and orderly life of Nataraj is disrupted by Vasu.

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M. Jagadeswari, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar
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Vellalar College for Women (Autonomous) SF
Erode 638012
Tamilnadu
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