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Title: Alienation in Anita Desai's novel Fire on the Mountain
Description: Anita Desai is one of the most interesting of Indian writers writing in English.This note focuses on the ideas and themes of alienation,isolation and existential angst as brought out by her famous work,Fire on the Mountain
Description: Anita Desai is one of the most interesting of Indian writers writing in English.This note focuses on the ideas and themes of alienation,isolation and existential angst as brought out by her famous work,Fire on the Mountain
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Anita Desai exhibits a strong inclination towards the existentialist interpretation of the human
predicamentin her novels
...
Her
novel,Fire on the Mountain revolves around the inner lives of its three protagonists,Nanda Kaul,Raka
and Ila Das,who are embodiments of alienation experienced by the individual in a hostile world
...
Living alone in the bleakness of
Carignano,with the exception of the company of a servant,she brooks no human presence
...
“Carignano
embodies the process of ageing,barrenness,loneliness,decay and death”,writes She wants "no one and
nothing else
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Through a long series of interior monologues,one finds Nanda Kaul musing about her
obligatory,dull past of receiving and treating the continual flow of guests of her Vice-Chancellor
husband
...
Also,the reminiscences of her selfish children make Nanda Kaul tremble at the very idea of the
past
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She is
wholly withdrawn from the world of "bags and letters,messages and demands,requests,promises and
queries"
...
The arrival of
Raka,her great granddaughter,does not fill up her void
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Raka,just like her great grandmother,steers clear of company and finds solace in nature
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She is not playful like other children and is a
tad secretive
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She is a little girl with a
fractured consciousness
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At one moment,Raka watches a party at the club and her reaction is revealing: in this world to which she
does not belong
...
”
Ila Das,Nanda Kaul's childhood friend,is like the"last little broken bit of a crazy life”
...
Ila Das,in standing up for what is right,loses her
life:a brutal reminder of the fact that the public domain is not for the'second sex'or the'other'
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In this way,this novel manifests Desai’s tragic vision of life,in which the innocents are made to suffer a
lot
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The novel espouses the
universal human struggle for survival,especially in the face of a never ending spiral of human failures
and misfortunes
Title: Alienation in Anita Desai's novel Fire on the Mountain
Description: Anita Desai is one of the most interesting of Indian writers writing in English.This note focuses on the ideas and themes of alienation,isolation and existential angst as brought out by her famous work,Fire on the Mountain
Description: Anita Desai is one of the most interesting of Indian writers writing in English.This note focuses on the ideas and themes of alienation,isolation and existential angst as brought out by her famous work,Fire on the Mountain