LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 10 October 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Surrinder to Surrender: An insight into Joshi’s The Foreigner

Bala S. Devi, Ph.D.

Understanding Ethical Codes

Arun Joshi, a veteran philosopher himself, excels in exploring various modes of philosophies that he comes to know of, during his sojourn in Western countries and his career in India within his short span of productive life on this planet. The outpouring of his misled protagonist Surrinder Oberoi in his understanding of ethical codes are simply fantastic, though affected ones from a young man who has grown old before his time, being weary with his loneliness, as shown in the following quotations: “Foreignness lay within oneself and one cannot leave one’s past behind him without reaping what he sows. Marriage more often is a lust for possession than anything else…where the couple gobbled up each other up” (Foreigner 66). And “Love is real when you know what you love must one day die” (Foreigner 170). Muthu, the simplest character in the novel is recognized as a powerful philosopher who is the kingpin in tuning Surrinder Oberoi to Surrender Oberoi.

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P. Bala Shanmuga Devi, Ph.D.
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Tamil Nadu
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