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    THE THEME of ALIENATION IN KAMALA MARKANDAYA’S FICTION. By: Mrs. Asha Rai‚ Lecturer in English‚ Technocrats Institute of Technology‚ Bhopal. Alienation‚ which means emotional isolation or dissociation‚ has been a very common theme among modern writers. This alienation is a major offshoot of the industrial revolution. Today‚ it has taken deep roots in everyday life‚ in science‚ in philosophy‚ in psychology‚ sociology and literature- covering a large panorama of almost every aspect of

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    Throughout the course of the book‚ Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya‚ incessant misfortune follows Rukmani‚ the main character‚ illustrating the theme that no matter how good and consistent life may feel in the moment‚ there are always more obstacles to come. Time and time again‚ Rukmani settles down in a stable environment only to have it ripped away from her. One of the main examples the book describes is her initial days living with her husband‚ Nathan. At first‚ the food is plentiful

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    ANTIGONE KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING This tragedy is set against the background of the Oedipus legend. It illustrates how the curse on the House of Labdacus (who is the grandson of Cadmus‚ founder of Thebes‚ and the father of Laius‚ whose son is Oedipus) brought about the deaths of Oedipus and his wife-mother‚ Jocasta‚ as well as the double fratricide of Eteocles and Polynices. Furthermore‚ Antigone dies after defying King Creon. The play is set in Thebes‚ a powerful city-state north of Athens

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    In the work Frankenstein the Modern Prometheus‚ by Mary Shelley‚ the creation Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates is alienated and enriched in knowledge from his isolation. From this alienation‚ the “Creation” brings out the major themes of isolation and seclusion. Mary Shelley uses the creature’s unfortunate upbringing as a way to bring a sense of automatic isolation to the creature in their modern society. In the creatures journey he finds a place to hide and watch the cottagers where he learns

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    Series Kamala Das - poems - Publication Date: 2012 Publisher: PoemHunter.Com - The World’s Poetry Archive Kamala Das Kamala Surayya / Suraiyya formerly known as Kamala Das ‚ (also known as Kamala Madhavikutty‚ pen name was Madhavikutty) was a major Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala‚ India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography‚ while her oeuvre in English‚ written under the name Kamala Das‚

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    1 ‚’*t r rf tj"’‚lr *‚‚ ."--"’n*te’*ui*=-""" MEG.O7 MASTEROS DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG) Assignment 2012-13 (for July‚ 2012 & Janu atyr 2013 sessions) MEG-07: INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE nffi\glgffitr?ffi&r &\h&d"f}t rr{€ pEOPLf ’s .w lunrvERSrTY I School of Humanities Indira Gandhi National Open Universify MaidanGarhi‚ New Delhi-l 10068 36 ASSIGNMENT FOR MASTERS DEGREE IN ENGLISH INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE (MEG-07) Programme: MEG Course Code: MEG-07 Dear Student‚ You

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    But as time passed Rukumani noticed "Ira: the transformation in her was astonishing as it was inexplicable. I had feared she might dislike the child‚ but now it was as if he were her own." (Markandaya 65). With Nathan hard at work trying to preserve what little they had left‚ and Rukumani tending to the other children. Ira becomes a mother figure to Kuti‚ rather than a sister role model. Through this relationship Ira does all she can do to

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    Alienation by definition is the state of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. This is a reoccurring theme in the both The Lost World‚ and‚ Into Thin Air. The problem with alienation in each book is that it has a negative effect on the characters and their decision-making. Into Thin Air is the book about the Mt. Everest disaster‚ the main character and narrator John Krakauer gets invited to come with Rob Hall’s expedition team

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    Man: His Solitariness Robert Frost has written on almost every subject‚ but alienation and isolation‚ both emotional and physical‚ are the major themes of his poetry. His‚ ‘book of people’‚ North of Boston‚ is full of solitaries who are lonely and isolated for one reason or the other. Frost is a great poet of boundaries and barriers which divide men from men and come in the way of communication‚ and so result in lack of understanding and friction. Man is not only isolated from other man‚ but Frost

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    games are just giving into their desires and sometimes it’s what has to be done in order to gain knowledge from what is unknown to them. In the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Kamala is Siddhartha’s doorway into lust‚ sin and greed. Don’t go confusing lust for love‚ lust doesn’t last

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