LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:9 September 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Quest for Travel in Anita Desai’s
Journey to Ithaca and The Zigzag Way

M. Akila, M.A., M.Phil.

Abstract

Anita Desai, one of the famous Indian woman writers, has frequently used ‘travel’ as a major motif for the physical and mental movement of the characters in the novels Journey to Ithaca and The Zigzag Way. This paper Quest for Travel in Anita Desai’s Journey to Ithaca and The Zigzag Way is an attempt to study how Desai has brought out Self-fulfillment through travel in the novel Journey to Ithaca and how travel is efficiently used for the renewal of the past of one’s ancestry in the novel The Zigzag Way.

Introduction

Meeting people from other spheres of life introduces ideas and occupations that people never knew existed. Travel conjures up different images and emotions to each and every one based upon age, experience and, their current circumstance irrespective of their desires. Travel gives you the opportunity to break away from the mould that people have shaped around them. Thus travel sometimes lead people to a new path and ultimately help them to frame a new life for them. No matter what type of travel one embarks the thrill of the journey is always an adventure. The famous Roman philosopher Seneca has rightly said that “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind” (qtd. in Das 56).

Self-Fulfillment through Travel in Journey to Ithaca

The very title Journey to Ithaca symbolizes the search for the fundamental truth of life, the reality embedded in the complex fabric of existence. Journey to Ithaca is a journey where Ithaca ceases to be a specific place, namely, Ulysses’s long-lost and yet long-cherished homeland. Further, Rai rightly defines ‘Ithaca’ as “… back home or celestial city” (qtd. in Chakravertty 98).

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M. Akila, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor of English
Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College
Sivakasi 626 123
Tamilnadu
India
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