Novels

Old man and the sea: Generally we can see that young man as a main character in the novel and drama while in this novel there is one change. Old man is the main hero or character in this novel. And there are some other character like Manolin and Marlie. This novel is like struggle of old man. He struggle throughout eighty four days. He not gets single fish and yet he will try every day (continuously eighty four days). He struggle with fish and before he kill that fish he speak one dialogue as under,

Old man: I like you, I love you but I will kill you.

And from this dialogue we can say that he accept that what he is doing? But in our life we can see that we can’t accept that we are doing that wrong thing. And we feel that we are doing some good thing. Example is that we are watering to plants and we feel that we are doing for them. But it is not right we save trees because we need it. So indirectly we are selfish. And I learnt this thing from this novel. So we can say that literature is useful for us not harmful to us if we take it rightly.

Frakenstein

Frankenstein: We can say that it is related with science or scientific novel. In this novel we can see great invention by Victor. He creates a human being, and through that invention he wants to be powerful and get respect from others. But what happened that his creation become curse for him. He create monster and then he want lady monster but Victor deny creating and that’s why that monster kill some family members of Victor. Then his whole family died because of some reasons which are related with Monster. And that’s why we can say that his own creation become curse for him as same in the Hindi movie ‘Victor’.

There is one proverb in Gujrti like ‘ Je poshtu te maratu e kram dise kudrati’. And it is applied here in this novel. So from this novel we know that so much use of technology is also harmful for our life. And one other thing is that women characters are silent in this novel. But by story wise this novel is wonderful novel and also interesting one.

Kanthapura

It is written by Raja Rao. And Murthy is a main character who is following Gandhian thoughts. So we can say it is story on effect of Gandhian thoughts. He is educated, respected young man of Kanthapura. He is one of thousands of young men inspired by Gandhi. There are some women characters also who are helping them. But, narration about village is good one.

Tom Jones

Here in this novel Tom is an anti hero. Generally we can see that hero is always good person and noble but it is different than that idea. He has affairs with so many women. And by birth he is not noble but by heart he is noble. He helps to many persons. It is good novel and we can see real characters in it. And quit new idea rather than old.

Oliver Twist

Oliver is main character in this novel. He is orphan boy and how his life goes on that is presented by writer. But he is good boy he suffers many times in between story but after all it ends with happy life of Oliver. There is one famous dialogue spoken by Oliver ‘I want some more’. It shows the reality of our society that how any orphan child suffers in our society. There are some persons like Fagin and his school. There are some persons like Fagin in our society also. But we have to identify them.

Robinson Crusoe

He is a person who lost in some strange land. Then he starts his new world there. He saw many things there. He made his house and all those things, but his gurney on that land is interesting one. We can also see master slave relationship in this novel. Crusoe is a master while Friday is slave. But it is good novel related with the idea power. That how power played a vital role. But it is an interesting novel.

Sense and Sensibility

This story about three sisters but among them two are in the center. One is related to sense and another is sensitive. In whole story we can see their love life and it end with their marriage. But in between we can see some other issue like how any woman suffers in our society. Some where it shows that women are unable everywhere, whether in her father’s home or husband’s. But no one can think about their home and their responsibility. Structure is as usual love, marriage and happy ending.

Middle March

It is written by George Eliot. Dorothea is the main character in this novel. First she married with Casaubon to help him then with Ladislaw. This novel related with love issue and marriage problems, etc. Some are doing marriage for love while some are for money. So after all we can say that it is good novel to understand different human beings. But the good couple of the novel is Mary and Vincy.

To the lighthouse

It is written by Virginia Woolf in 1927. It divided into three parts. There are main two characters in the novel Mrs. Ramsay and Lily. Both are completely different characters one believes in stereo type woman while other believing in new ideas and free from marriage. Narrative technique of this novel is amazing. We can see both types of characters in our society. But as an Indian woman we can’t escape of our self from to be Ramsay. It is impossible to behave like Lily but we can do mixture of both the characters. That is the only way. But it is good novel and we learn many things from this novel.

The Scarlet Letter

This is written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. This is a story about Hester. In this story Hester is prostitute woman. Her husband left her for some years and then she has affairs with some person. And then she gives birth to child. And because of this she has to suffer a lot. But there is no any reference of her husband and his life during these years. So in our society we always ask to only women. And only they have to suffer why not men? But now a day’s gradually things have going to change but yet not completely so we must have to think about it.

White Tiger

It is written by Arvind Adiga. It represents the Indian reality. He makes satire on all the things like God of Hanuman, politics, education system, etc. Balram is the main character in the novel yet he is murderer also. He speak lie, do wrong things, etc. He is realistic character. Through this character writer try to present that how any poor people become rich person. He is anterpruner and story of his. So we can say that it is about poverty of India. But we can’t say it is complete truth but yet it is some part of India. And so we can say that it represents the reality of India.

Harry Potter

It is a good series of novels by J.K. Rowling. It is divided into seven books. Harry is the main character in this novel. There are many women characters like Hermione, Ginny, etc. Writer gives justice to woman character yet it is anti feminism. Generally people believe that it is children literature but not only it. It is beyond it because we can find so many other things like self-help book, Feminist reading, choice and chance, etc. So after all it is good novel and we learn many things from it.

One night @ the call center

It is written by Chetan Bhagat. His all books become so famous in our country. There are main six characters in the novel. Priyanka and Shyam are main characters. It is Story with prologue and epilogue. His style to telling story is good, but we can’t see depth in narrative characters and story. But it is good one yet we can’t say it is high literature.

Things fall apart

It is written by Chinua Achebe who is African writer. It is about Okonkwo who is main character. He is strong, hard working, etc. He is leader of his village. By some how he murders a boy Ikemefuna, then he feels guilty and after the death of boy things going wrong with Okonkwo. Then he kill his self and no one can touch his body from his own villagers. Because all people thinks that it is sin according to Christianity so nobody come to touch his body. Thus it ends with tragic things. So it is tragedy of Okonkwo.