A study of the multiple themes in O. V. Vijayan‘s The Legends of Khasak

Jayan .T; Dr. S. Selvalakshmi

Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

A study of the multiple themes in O. V. Vijayan‘s The Legends of Khasak

Jayan . T, Dr. S. Selvalakshmi

Abstract :

The main theme provides an organic unity to a novel. The most common contemporary understanding of theme is an idea or point that is central to a story, which can often be summed in a single word. It is important not to confuse a theme of a literary work with its subject. Subject is a topic which acts as a foundation for a literary work while a theme is an opinion expressed on the subject. In Malayalam literature, there are many novels having more than one theme. O .V Vijayan’s The Legends of Khasak is one of these. As it being a multi–faceted novel; readers can assimilate and reproduce it in a multiple ways. Many intellectuals have found in depth presence of myth s in the novel. Likewise there are several other themes like the concept of rebirth, death and nature, lust and mystic experience, sense of sin etc. There one can see powerful images like the image of water and image of time. O.V.Vijayan had undoubtedly created a magic world and the readers can have a comprehensive outlook about the known and the things about the existence of man in this universe and the mysterious ways that make his life possible on this earth.