Cultural Confluence in Naipaul's Half a Life

dc.contributor.authorRai, Dhan Bahadur
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-04T09:30:03Z
dc.date.available2022-01-04T09:30:03Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractCultural Confluence is the central issue in V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life. Willie Somerset Chandran, the protagonist of the novel, experiences mixed ideas between his Indian and other cultures. Willie’s name itself shows the mixture of the two cultural traditions viz. Western i.e. “Willie Somerset” and eastern i.e. “Chandran”. Willie experiences dilemma to adopt any particular cultures so that he is tortured psychologically. In order to fulfill his desire he travels from India to London and Africa but he gets himself a sense of loss, neither he goes to his root culture nor adopts new cultures completely because of his Creole roots, Brahman and untouchable caste. Ultimately, he comes to know that the amalgamation of cultures makes an individual fragmented. Furthermore, the first chapter tries to define the introduction of the Thesis and the writer’s background. Similarly, the required theory has been used in order to prove the hypothesis in the second chapter. There are some factors that cause cultural confluence and fragmented in self. The text has been analysed according to the theory in the third chapter that how does Willie face challenges in his life? Willie travels from India to London and Africa in order to search authentic self but he experiences fragmented in self due to the amalgamation of cultures. There is brief description of the whole Thesis in the conclusion.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/7044
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Englishen_US
dc.subjectEnglish literatureen_US
dc.subjectModernizationen_US
dc.titleCultural Confluence in Naipaul's Half a Lifeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleRatna Rajya Laxmi Campus, Pradarshani Margen_US

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