Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

A Brief Study of Characterization in the Novels of Anand and Narayan

Prof. Sanjay B. Khot.

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Narayan is one of the great triumvirate of the Indian English fiction. His characters are true domiciles of Malgudi. He has presented “a considerable section of Indian society striving to live its daily life in a definite historical situation that is not of a few intellectually or emotionally adventurous persons. He is talking, but of more sizeable and static section of Indian society.” He has portrayed a variety of characters covering the whole gamut of life living in the locale of Malgudi. There are vendors, tourists-guides, money lenders, professors, drivers, travelers, dancers, school masters, children, housewives. His characters represent varied facets of human nature which are neither good nor bad. Human nature is presented veraciously and interestingly and memorably, there is no overt condemnation or praise. He has not idealized or glorified them. There is truthfulness, compassion and authorial detachment. He portrayed his characters as he saw them in real life. There are elements of frustration, illusion, deception and achievements. Mulk Raj Anand not only humanized the English novel but also enlarged its scope by introducing into it new themes and entirely new set of Characters. His novel present a fictional world peopled by a striking variety of characters, covering a wide area of Indian social and political scene, over a period of more than thirty years. His fiction is a huge country fair where all kinds of people rub shoulders. He covered the entirely social gamut from the maharajas to mendicant; front the Anglo-Indian to the Untouchables, there are Nabobs, landlords, soldiers, lawyers, politician, revolutionaries, priests, teachers, merchants, contractors, money-lenders, clerks, factory workers, coolies, sweepers, washer-men, cobblers, barbers, carpenters, fruit-vendors, farmers and coppersmiths

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A BRIEF STUDY OF CHARACTERIZATION IN THE NOVELS OF ANAND AND NARAYAN, Prof. Sanjay B. Khot. GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-8 | Issue-2 | February-2019

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