R k narayan themes CIJELLH Volume Issue Month Dr Vipula Mathur Assistant Professor Mahila PG College Jodhpur Rajasthan India vipulamathur sgi gmail com Major Themes in the Novels of R K Narayan Abstract Narayan deals with a society in which the combined w
CIJELLH Volume Issue Month Dr Vipula Mathur Assistant Professor Mahila PG College Jodhpur Rajasthan India vipulamathur sgi gmail com Major Themes in the Novels of R K Narayan Abstract Narayan deals with a society in which the combined weight of tradition custom and social opinion usually compels individuals to play their expected life roles He has also said that he value human relationship very intensely It makes one's existence worthwhile ?? human relationship in any and every form whether at home or outside It is the life of Malgudi which he knew intimately which has fertilized his imagination and he renders it accurately vividly and realistically in one novel after another R K Narayan concent rates on orthodox family and incorporates numerous features of Indian life He studies the various relationships in his novels with family as the nucleus There is a strong sense of kinship in his ?ction Keywords-Narayan Indian family relationships novels individual themes Introduction R K Narayan has long been regarded as the best Indian writer in the English language The adjective 'Indian' needs to be heavily underscored on several counts Narayan is neither AngloIndian nor Indo- Indian nor Indo-Anglian he is very much an Indian both in spirit and thought He did not write with an eye on foreign audience though he is published abroad and widely CIJELLH Volume Issue Month read abroad He did not choose his themes nor distort them in order to please those in the West who continue to treat us Indians as if we are inferior breed He deal with big themes ?? all which had been happening in India ?? but with deceptive simplicity Even at the later age the sources of R K Narayan's creative imagination had not dried up The sparkling inventive skill the e ?ortless simplicity and the simplicity and the cerebral switch board of ideas are all in robust health The Malgudi novels have a remarkable unity and a distinctive tone of voice which combine style and virtue An analysis of his novels reveals that R K Narayan dealt neither with the aristocracy at the top nor the poor He practically like Jane Austen identi ?ed himself with the middle class people and their various involvements their clashes and adjustments that constitute the main interest of his novels Like E M foster and D H Lawrence he is a critic of contemporary society who ironically criticizes the follies and foibles of modern civilization reared on the material values of life Narayan believes in the principal of 'Art for art's sake' and dealing with social problems in his novels like H G Wells and Galaworthy he writes also for the pleasure of creation and beauty He had a particular liking for religious life and hence in all his novels we are bound to meet sanyasi temple and Ganges R K Narayan ? s social consciousness is the subject of this study R M MacIver and C M Page in 'Society' writes Society as a system of usages
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