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- Title
HOUSE: A SYMBOL OF PERSONAL IDENTITY IN V. S. NAIPAUL'S A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS.
- Authors
Aishwarya, U.; Kanimoz, SP. M.
- Abstract
This article analyses the efforts of a Man whose lifetime ambition is to own a house. Mr Biswas is an ordinary man, who reflects the plight of the wotless' individuals who are eager to find their own identity in a society thai, undergoes a lot of socio-political changes. After the death of Raghu, father of Mr Biswas, their family gets scattered. Mr Biswas was made to live in diffenvnt house, which gives him the sense of alienation. The constantsense of isolation andnon-belongingness feltby Mr Biswas portrays the dilemma felt by most of the migrants, this sense of isolation and non-belongingness pushes Mr Biswas' to get into a life long struggle ofgettinga house of his own, which he thinks as his personal identity.
- Subjects
HOUSE for Mr. Biswas, A (Book); NAIPAUL, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018; LITERARY criticism; IDENTITY (Psychology) in literature; IMMIGRANTS in literature; SOCIAL belonging in literature
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 3, p153
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism