“Hey look the happy rapper’s not so happy now. I remember when I used to laugh out loud. Nowadays I only LOL, through text cause I don’t wanna talk, don’t touch me I don’t wanna feel.” In his song “Remember Me” Kyle describes how he begins to lose himself because of his pain. Indian/Pakistinian writers do this through their writing as well. During the time period this literature was written India gained independence from Britain, and separated into India and Pakistan. This hurt people who had loved ones in other countries, and was devoted to India, etc. The literature had a prominent loss of self theme because of heartbreak. The motifs pain, addiction, and devotion to a single beloved develop the theme of loss of self through heartbreak in …show more content…
Addiction to a girl, or someone one loves romantically causes withdrawal when that person is lost. This is described by the line, “Where none of the walls know the ecstasy of longing for the beloved face” which shows the narrator was addicted to the person he lost (552). The narrator is now losing himself trying to live without the person he lost. After losing the person one is addicted to, they find a new addiction to cope with the last one. This new addiction is often alcohol. Alcoholism is seen in “Three Quatrains” when the author says, “[L]oneliness has come to drink with me” showing the narrator is consumed by so much pain that he relies on alcohol to make it better (550). He drinks with no one but loneliness because the one he loves left, and he doesn’t want to be with anyone else. Relying on alcohol to get rid of pain and isolating oneself not only does not make pain leave, but also causes a person to lose their personality and what made them their own person. When one realizes alcohol does not take their pain away, they become addicted to the pain itself. They become so consumed by the pain that they do not want to feel better anymore. This is seen in Faiz’s line, “The grief who’s ashes glow in the circle of your arms” showing the narrator has nothing left to hold onto from the person who hurt him except the pain they caused, causing him to become addicted to his pain (552). By holding onto his pain he completely loses himself and is a completely different person, with a soul consumed by pain. As pain causes addiction to take over one’s life, they often isolate themselves from others and devote themselves to just the person they
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For example, the character Timber experienced a tragic event which left his beloved wife, Sylvan, with brain damage, causing her to forget who he was. Her love and support was the driving force in his. Timber says “she’d come home at night and find me there and we’d walk into the house which was our home” (Wagamese, 2009, p. 205). His choice of words convey that the house was only a home when Sylvan was there. When she was taken away from him, he was emotionally homeless. With his wife needing care in an expensive special facility, Timber resorted to selling their belongings and eventually their house, making him physically homeless as well. This, in association with the loss of his wife, caused him to leave his former life. This response is similar to the “fight or flight” response animals and humans have with the presence of stress (Davidson, 2015). Timber chose to flee from his problems as apposed to fight to rebuild his life. With this behaviour, it is not surprizing that he also took up a drinking problem. Similar to the aforementioned Digger, Timber used alcohol as a means to self-medicate. He says about drinking, “it’s all [he] could do because [he] didn’t want to surface to the blackness, the emptiness of [his] life” (Wagamese, 2009, p. 208). Timber’s poor mental health and substance abuse only further contributed to his
Brendan Behan, an Irish poet and writer, stated, “One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.” For alcoholics, it is hard to consume one alcoholic beverage and after drinking ten beverages, they feel as though it is not enough and should continue drinking. This is a situation that occurs too often and is a real struggle to overcome. In fact, variations of Behan’s quote have been used in alcohol recovery programs worldwide. But why must some alcoholics use his quote to understand the power that alcohol has over them? There are three contributing factors that lead to alcoholism - mental health, genetic structure, and social environment.
The great piece of literature of the ninetieth century, The Conclusion is more than just a love story between a young man and a young woman. Within its words lie lessons of maturing and growing up as a woman which are pretty relevant to today surprisingly. This story is written by, Rabindranath Tagore, which was an early leader in the movement for India’s national liberation he will remain in the hearts of many as an inspiration. The story has many noticeable things going on such as the influence of the British educational system in India; differences in social positions; the relationships between the village and city. The story is how this young man wins over a young girl’s heart and desire totally transforming her nature by letting her be wild free spirited self.
. There are many reasons why people start consuming alcohol, such as to increase self-confidence, escape from personal problems, relieve stress, overcome a poor self-image or to overcome shyness. Alcohol is defined as the use of alcohol interfering with social, academic, physical, or economic functioning. There are many stages on how alcohol affects a person. The first stage of alcoholism involves the use of alcoholism as a way to deal with other problems. The abuser will drink more than the average amount and is usually preoccupied with for example, partying or going out socially to drink. The abuser will also drink to cope with personal problems, have trouble stopping after one drink, and they’ll feel guilty about drinking so much. The drinker
Fictional characters, incidents and events coalesce with historical personages, places, events and incidents to give it a local colour and habitation, like history plays of Shakespeare. That makes the novel interesting and exciting. But, at several places, in the novel, there is a lack of passion, feeling and poetry, so badly needed to make a work of art more stimulating, exciting and readable. Hoping to humour her Indian and American readers, Mukherjee fails to please both. The “heard melodies” of the seventeenth-century England are sweet to Americans but, not sweeter to Indians. Adversely, ‘those unheard’ are not sweet to Indians but are sweeter to Americans. This interplay of “heard” and “unheard,” the enactment of ‘dehousement’ and ‘rehousement’ make her, a sort of the mythical
There are many times where the narrator describes his actions towards his loved ones while under the influence of alcohol. Since the narrator is trying to draw the attention to his consumption of alcohol, he tries to make sure that his actions trace back to it. In the short story, the narrator says "But my disease grew upon me -- for what disease is like Alcohol !..."(Poe 23) which shows his addiction for alcohol becoming stronger. The narrator's madness seems to be heightened by the alcohol. He begins to chan...
Everybody starts off with a story and it could be good or bad. Depeneding on who you are people will remember the good and the bad of you. What I I want to be remembered by is by having a good spirit and sometimes have bad attitude. I want to be remembered by girl always having on makeup and fixing it in class and doing my hair. Because I’m a very high maintenance person. I want to be remembered for having the love of starbucks and knowing when I don’t get any I’ll be in a bad mood. I want to be remembered as being a silly person and wanting to have some fun every now and then. I want be remembered as the girl who always likes nice and expensive things and that I’m very spoiled. I want to be remembered as the girl with the mean mug and the
Globalisation is one of the issues which has been dealt with seriously in the novel. Globalization is the convergent point of various cultures, emergence of brotherhood, integration, assisimilation et al. But globalization has its demerits also. The people seem to threaten each other, moral values are eroded, societal pressures crop up and eventhough people begin to understand and respect each other, they are thwarted by loss of identity. Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss present such a picture of globalized India. Globalization seems to be both a boon and a bane for the characters in the novel.The characters like Jemubhai Patel, Mr. and Mrs Mistry, Sai, Biju, Nonita and Lolita are the victims of globalization. It seems to be the key cause for both their suffering and progress. As an intelligent writer and careful observer of human behaviour, Kiran Desai fulfills the responsibility o...
Amitav Ghosh undoubtedly occupied an undefeatable position in the galaxy of Indian writers in English. He has contributed immensely to make Indian writings acclaimed worldwide. Most of his writings involve the themes of exile, cultural displacement, revolution, emigration, dislocation, loss of identity, uprooting that characterizes into historical novels. He recuperates the irony, disillusionment, dilemma and ambiguity of human condition of a bygone era through his language. He masterfully connects the complex flow of time with his researched narrative. As a writer of historical fiction, he delves deeply in an introspective exploration of self and the society with much eloquence. Ghosh is laudable for handling his highly celebrated stories and exploring characters.
The present paper aims at studying the novel as a love story whose dimensions are touched by caste, creed and other socio-political realities existing in the regionally contextualised boundaries of the South Indian state of Kerala. The narrative of The God of Small Things hinges on or around the Ayemenem House and at times peeps into the misty atmosphere of the History House to delicately explore the big things lurked unsaid inside. This novel features the very worst sort of war, a war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. Altogether, the novel reiterates how it really began in the days when the love laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how, and how much. This manifests almost like the guiding motif of this novel. On the whole Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is a major breakthrough in Indian fiction in English. Especially in typical Indian setting, the depiction of an engaging tale of cross caste forbidden love between a Paravan
This essay focuses on the theme of forbidden love, The God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy. This novel explores love and how love can’t be ignored when confronted with social boundaries. The novel examines how conventional society seeks to destroy true love as this novel is constantly connected to loss, death and sadness. This essay will explore the theme of forbidden love, by discussing and analysing Ammu and Velutha's love that is forbidden because of the ‘Love Laws’ in relation to the caste system which results in Velutha’s death. It is evident that forbidden love negatively impacts and influences other characters, such as Estha and Rahel, which results in Estha and Rahel’s incestuous encounter.
Poetry has always been the most popular genre in the literature and it’s said that the language of poetry exits when there was no language. The language of poetry delves deep into the sensation that’s why it’s defined as the spontaneous overflow of emotion and actions recollected in tranquility. Modern Indian poetry in English can be defined as poetry written/published from 1947 onwards (the year India gained Independence from British rule), by poets of Indian origin, born or settled outside India writing in the English language. After, the fall of colonial empire new literature from the colonized countries emerged depicting the local sensitivity and adding the local spices and color in terms of native cultural discourse on the world literature map. Historically if we see English language is not still having any regional base in India except some North East states and Southern states where it’s used as link language but slowly and surely it’s becoming the synonym to the vernacular. Despite its huge growth in education and economic sectors it still remains one of the minority languages in India spoken by just the 4% of the population. Despite the continuous pressure from the nationalist, English language remain at the heart of Indian society. Today English language has achieved the status, the language of governance, communication and therefore continues to play very important role in national decision making. It was the Macaulay’s “Minute on Indian Education” which exerted a fundamental and formative influence on the academic atmosphere in India. Although his intention of making people “Indian in blood and colour, but in English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect” proved to be partially true, the decision to intro...
The above comment exhibits Narayan’s concern for the centrality of the theme in a novel. He ties himself to a single theme for at least two years while writing a novel. Theme in the novels of Narayan is the focal point around which constituent and characteristics elements like plot, character, narration, story, dialogue, humour, fate, society and regional qualities function. He exhibits the same pattern in his last but not least novel Talkative Man. This novel also possesses thematic architectonic quality because the constituents and the characteristic elements run into one another harmoniously to achieve the architectonic quality. The theme of the novel, as Narayan himself writes, is “a wife’s attempt to reclaim her erratic, elusive husband. Who is a wanderer, a philanderer on a global scale, abandoning women right and left.”(1983 p.121) Thus, we can say that separation and loneliness are the themes of this novel. Almost all the constituents and characteristic elements run into one another to achieve this theme. I will discuss the theme first and then proceed to relate the other elements with the theme so that we can appreciate the architectonic quality which is the essence of this novel.
The composition not only shows his ultimate sarcasm with the British rule in India, it is also a reflection of the Western civilization. Rabindranath jots down, I had at one time believed that the springs of civilization would issue out of the heart of Europe. But today when I am about to quit the world that faith has gone bankrupt altogether. Rabindranath, who had started his life as a keen believer in the generosity of the European civilization was later disappointed when he came across the catastrophic consequences of the English rule in Indian subcontinent. It is with this disappointment the beginning of Modern Indian English Literature is marked, the earliest phase of which is described by H.M. Williams as Georgian effusions. However, more than a period of time, those effusions took a back seat with the British denial to grant Indian sovereignty. Therefore, the new generation that emerged was cynical by the West’s failure to keep its exciting promises. Three early masters of the Modern Indian Literature in English namely Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan laid the foundation of the Contemporary English novel in India by throwing out the Indian values and adapting English Language to the Indian needs by asserting an Indian identity. It was a creative appropriation of English Language, but a rejection of the world of the existing British English Literature also. While the trio Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan successfully laid the basics of the Indian reality and started to look at the Indian opinion and the Indian picture from a post-colonial point of the view, the later generation went further and calculate in detail the emerging guides of the Indian socio-political reality born within and without the Indian environmental boundaries. Hence, the arrival of Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Amitava Ghosh, Upmanyu