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Domestic Discord in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s
The Nature Of Passion

I. Poornima, M.A., M.Phil.


Abstract

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala confines her attention to the Indian middle classes and the expatriates and her novels deftly ring the chimes on the same themes, tracing numerous permutations on family conflicts. The second novel The Nature of Passion opens with several scenes of tensions and domestic discord for which Lalaji’s wife, his sister and elder son hold him responsible. Their complaint is that instead of confining his younger children within traditional moulds he has not only educated them beyond all reasonable limits but allowed them to forget the real business of life. In a society in which young men must be absorbed in business before they can develop any specific choices and women be married off at a tender age, too much freedom to the young has jeopardized his family’s unity, making him a failure as a paterfamilias. The Nature of Passion is pseudo-modernism, which loses ground as soon as it faces real problems of life. Jhabvala deals with a wide range of the Indian middle classes, from wealthy westernized intellectuals to poor teachers and government clerks clinging to status and respectability. Her scenes of domestic life range from emancipated England returned intellectuals to the suffocating women's quarters of traditional Hindu household. Much of her subject matter is the outcome of domestic conflicts of a changing society. She is particularly good at describing the characters, of their homes, which vividly reflect their personalities and lifestyle of their owners. She presents an accurate picture of Indian life.

Key Words:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, The Nature of Passion, dominant, tradition and modernism, Indian middle class, familial conflicts.

The Nature of Passion

The Nature of Passion (1956), Jhabvala’s second novel, deals with the tussle between the old and the young. It is both a novel of manners as well as morals. The novelist’s art of characterization has minor psychological overtones. In fact its familial, social, cultural and moral aspects are more dominant and pervasive than its psychological trend.

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