A Story Driven by Minor Characters in Waiting for the Mahatma
A STORY DRIVEN BY MINOR CHARATERS:
A story-is an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment: "an adventure story". The telling of a happening or connected series of happenings, whether true or fictitious.
Driven- Operated, moved, or controlled by a specified person or source of power.
A Minor character- is one who is not entirely important to the plot. That is, the story would still hold together without that character, but might be a little choppy.
Waiting for the Mahatma, like all Narayan’s novels is remarkable for the richness and variety of its minor character. Without these minor characters the plot will be incomplete and curtailed.
None of his characters are actually major characters in the novel in the sense of being a heroic protagonist. Sriram is the main character around which the story revolves. Although female characters play central roles in Narayans works, Bharati directs the course of this story. The story is shaped by her decisions and movements. It is because of these lady characters that the male counterparts undergo strange twists and turns of fate something they have never visualised in their wildest dreams. In waiting for the Mahatma, Narayan presented the love of Sriram and Bharati against the background of the struggle for independence launched my Mahatma Gandhi. The struggle and love went together because Sriram loved Bharati whose first loyalty was to the Mahatma. Hence in the end Bharati and Srirams wedding depends on Gandhi.
Perhaps the greatest achievement of this novel is the one which in this book appears as a minor character, namely Gandhi himself. The Gandhian myth runs through the book. K.R Srinivas Lyengar remarked: “Gandhi is too big to be given a minor part but if he’s given a major part the books would turn out to be a biography. Narayan did not present Gandhi in terms of great political events, but in relations to ordinary events while retaining his historical authenticity. “He showed how
A story-is an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment: "an adventure story". The telling of a happening or connected series of happenings, whether true or fictitious.
Driven- Operated, moved, or controlled by a specified person or source of power.
A Minor character- is one who is not entirely important to the plot. That is, the story would still hold together without that character, but might be a little choppy.
Waiting for the Mahatma, like all Narayan’s novels is remarkable for the richness and variety of its minor character. Without these minor characters the plot will be incomplete and curtailed.
None of his characters are actually major characters in the novel in the sense of being a heroic protagonist. Sriram is the main character around which the story revolves. Although female characters play central roles in Narayans works, Bharati directs the course of this story. The story is shaped by her decisions and movements. It is because of these lady characters that the male counterparts undergo strange twists and turns of fate something they have never visualised in their wildest dreams. In waiting for the Mahatma, Narayan presented the love of Sriram and Bharati against the background of the struggle for independence launched my Mahatma Gandhi. The struggle and love went together because Sriram loved Bharati whose first loyalty was to the Mahatma. Hence in the end Bharati and Srirams wedding depends on Gandhi.
Perhaps the greatest achievement of this novel is the one which in this book appears as a minor character, namely Gandhi himself. The Gandhian myth runs through the book. K.R Srinivas Lyengar remarked: “Gandhi is too big to be given a minor part but if he’s given a major part the books would turn out to be a biography. Narayan did not present Gandhi in terms of great political events, but in relations to ordinary events while retaining his historical authenticity. “He showed how