LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:9 September 2018
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Anita Desai as an Existentialist
Exploring the Emotional Turbulence and Chaotic Inner World

Dr. C. Ramya, MBA, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.


Anita Desai
Courtesy: https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/anita-desai/236335

Abstract

This paper focuses on the emotional turmoil of protagonists in the novels of Anita Desai. The female sex felt oppressed because of the chaotic condition of their life. In order to lead a meaningful and peaceful life, the woman should reach into her own self to bring out her potentiality and lead a life without depending on others. Desai brings out the suffering of women in the hands of men. Men believed that women should follow the rules and regulations, culture and tradition of the society which become as an obstacle for the independence of women. All the leading characters of her novel want to be independent and free from the sufferings both in the inner and outer worlds.

Keywords: Anita Desai, existentialist, sufferings, alienation, self, husband-wife relationship, oppression, emotional world.

Exploring the Emotional Ecology

In contemporary Indo-Anglian fiction, Anita Desai is indisputably a serious artist of a very high order skillfully exploring the emotional ecology of her protagonists who feel terribly oppressed with the burden of living helplessly in the present chaotic conditions, even while combating the ubiquitous forces of absurd realities in life. Her unquestionable existentialist concerns coupled with her commendable craft have rather significantly distinguished her from other novelists both of the older and the younger generations. Standing distinctly apart from all the practicing novelists Mrs. Desai stands above many making literary endeavour so as to evaluate the various formidable factors that make human existence rather uncomfortable and unendurable. Earnestly committed to the novel as an art-form, she practices her craft with remarkable sincerity, skill and seriousness.

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Dr. C. Ramya, MBA, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
E.M.G. Yadava College for Women
MADURAI – 625 014
Tamil Nadu, India
rramyachelliah@gmail.com

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