THEME OF ALIENATION IN ANITA DESAI’S NOVELS WITH REFERENCE TO ‘CRY‚ THE PEACOCK’‚ ‘VOICES IN THE CITY’ AND ‘FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN’ Alienation is one of the greatest problems confronting modern man. The 20th century Especially the postwar period has been called the ‘Age of Alienation’. Edmund Fuller remarks that in our age man suffers not only from war persecution ‚ famine and ruin‚ but from inner problem a conviction on isolation ‚ randomness ‚ meaninglessness in his way of existence. There are
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ESSAY- The Farewell Party Brainstorm: Paragraph 1- Who is leaving‚ and why‚ and when the farewell party is Paragraph 2- Planning the farewell party Paragraph 3- What happened during the party ( 5 senses‚ descriptive ) Paragraph 4- the reaction of the people there
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Farewell Party It is normally said that the prime time in the life of anyone is the time that he spends in school. This is‚ undoubtedly‚ golden age‚ which he recollects sentimentally for the rest of his life. And this golden era came to an end on 2nd February 2012‚ which happened to be my last day at school. It was the time to leave my school forever‚ where I had spent past ten years of my life. The farewell took place in a huge hall‚ jazzed up with strips of multi-colored paper‚ balloons and
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Review: Fasting‚ Feasting by Anita Desai The most recent novel of Indian born author Anita Desai‚ Fasting‚ Feasting (1999) tells the story of two middle-class families and the allegorical struggles of the individual members to find individual identity and happiness. This meticulously constructed prose gravitates towards the position of women in the family unit and explores socially ordered gender imbalance in domestic life. Featuring a traditional Indian family in provincial town India and a typical
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the framework of an Indian stereotypical woman. There are other traits in Maya’s character which transcends the idea of “femininity” inseparable from males. She is in search of a new vista for a woman’s world- a space where she is at par with man. Desai writes “for woman‚ about woman by woman” - a genre where woman is not depicted in two versions- one in the temporal consciousness where she is “weak‚ meek and submissive”‚ ideally ABLA dependent on man related to her as her father or husband or son
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Major Works of Anita Desai‚ the Indian Novelist Most of Desai’s works engage the complexities of modern Indian culture from a feminine perspective while highlighting the female Indian predicament of maintaining self-identity as an individual woman. Cry‚ the Peacock‚ Desai’s first novel‚ chronicles the morbid dread‚ descent into madness‚ and suicide of Maya‚ a young Delhi housewife who is trapped in a loveless‚ arranged marriage to the much older Gautama‚ a misogynistic lawyer. The novel foreshadows
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finding a vehicle to take them to the reception at Green’s.” When Mrs Fernandez realizes that a whole line of cabs at the curb belonged to more ‘important’ members of the family‚ she “set her lips together and looked dangerously wrathful‚ and the party atmosphere began quickly to dissolve in the acid of bad temper and the threat to her dignity.” This can be linked in
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Farewell Party and Me When I arrived to my workplace‚ there was no one in my department. Staring at an automatic-drilling with a blinking yellow light‚ I thought myself that how long had the machine been stopped. I put my lunch bag on a computer desk and sit on a chair to check an email whether there was an important message left for me by my supervisor during daytime. While I was checking email my cell phone rang out suddenly. I was slightly frightened as it rang unexpectedly. Usually
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We found out that he was leaving us just one day before the day he was supposed to leave. He did not tell us. Another teacher did. As we liked very much‚ we got together and planned a farewell party for him. The girls agreed to make some tidbits and the boys agreed to prepare some drinks. It was to be a small party‚ as we did not have enough time to plan a bigger one. The next day‚ we sat through two study periods early in the morning before Mr. Tan entered the class for our science lesson. We
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Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa. T.S. by Nissim Ezekiel Nissim Ezekiel is a popular figure in the field of Indian Writing in English. In his lifetime‚ he has written so many poems like “The Night of the Scorpion.” and “Enterprise‚” which are entertaining and enlightening. The poem‚” Goodbye Party for Miss.Pushpa” comes under his sixth volume of poems‚ namely “Hymns in Darkness.” The occasion is a farewell party given to Miss T.S. Pushpa by her friends and colleagues in her office when
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