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Volume 18:9 September 2018
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Amalgamation of Five Elements with Five Senses with Particular
Reference to Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain

S. Veyilkandhal, Ph.D. Research Scholar and Dr. A. Selva Raj


Abstract

Scientifically it is proved that the universe was created out of the composition of five basic elements which was present in it in a balanced state to maintain the law of nature. When an element began to dominate other that will cause destruction. Every human life and other living organism’s life have been merged with these five elements of nature, i.e. earth, water, air, fire and, earth and also known as panchtatva. This element is also present in human body, known as panchaboothas. The omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent power of these elements are perceived in the forms of five senses such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch in human beings. These five senses act as the gross medium for the experience of sensations in human beings. In this paper I would like to focus on the relationship between five elements and how man perceives through his five senses. This paper aims to sort out how five elements played a vital part in human life and how the natural law of balance was maintained among these five elements, with reference to Anita Desai’s novel Fire on the Mountain.

Anita Desai

British writer Micheal Martin refers Anita Desai as, (original name Anita Mazumdar (1937) ) “one of the preeminent cotemporary Indian novelists” who presents strong women voices in Indian English-language. She hailed as the mother of Indian psychological novel. Being novelist, short story writer and author of children’s books, she is talented in invoking the character and mood through images array from the meteorological to the botanical. As a writer she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times individually for her fictions, Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting 1999). She won Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her fiction Fire on the Mountain. She received the British Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her children’s book The Village by the Sea (1982). Her novel Fire on the Mountain (1977), won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. In Custody was made into a film by Merchant Ivory productions.

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S. Veyilkandhal
Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of English
Annamalai University
Chidambaram
Kandhal8384@gmail.com

Dr. A. Selva Raj
Associate Professor
Department of English
Annamalai University
selva_1963@rediffmail.com

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