War And Aftermath Of War Analysis

WAR AND AFTERMATH OF WAR IN THE ENGLISH PATIENT BY MICHAEL ONDAATJE

Abstract
War and aftermath of war is a paper which talks about the various aspects of war and its outcomes as discussed in the novels of Michael Ondaatje. Ondaatje takes war as a major theme in his two most famous novels: The English Patient and Anil’s Ghost. The present paper discusses the treatment of war in the hands of Ondaatje in his Booker winning novel The English Patient. The treatment of the sensitive topics of war gets a mature handling with Ondaatje. The paper comprehensively deals with the various reasons behind war as mentioned in the paper and its aftermath. The paper tells how, according to Ondaatje war is always destructive. Moreover, so far as the outcomes
On the political or official level the aftermath of war only deals with materialistic loss and the death toll of soldiers along with the injured ones. However the losses any war brings to the lives of human beings in the form of acute physical and psychological pain is never measured or recorded officially. This is the major concern of Michael Ondaatje. He basically tries to bring to light that concealed and never discussed grief of human beings in his novels.

War and aftermath of war is one of the prominent themes with which Michael Ondaatje has dealt in his famous novels. The concept of war comes in its full extent in the hands of Ondaatje. He gives a comprehensive treatment to the concept of war and its most probable outcomes. His comprehensive treatment of war includes the two most popular and major forms of it, the national as well as the international ones. He brings out almost all the major issues related to war. His comprehensive treatment of the theme of war comes in its full in the given novel. The thing which makes the treatment of the war in the novel is its sustainable treatment. To begin with, Ondaatje deals with not only with the aftermath but all causes related to
In the novel The English Patient the protagonist who is given the name of The English Patient or Almasy is one of the major victims of war. To Almasy the tortures of war were so great that when he got his body burnt severely, instead of repenting he availed it as an opportunity. To quote a critic named Bussy, “Disguising his Hungarian national identity beneath the distortion of his body, the English patient prevents hostility from the other characters, which are aligned with the opposite side of the war effort.”