Summary Of The Struggle Faced By V. S. Naipaul

Almost all the works of V.S.Naipaul have charecters who are poor and live in rural area .always this characters undergo trials and suffering. The hero of the story Mr.Mohun Biswas in V.S. Naipaul “ A house of Mr. Biswas” is not an exemption . “I am going to get a job of my own and am going to get my own house ‘ the story revolves around this vows of Mr.biswas . The struggle faced by him is portrays the pursuit of happiness to reach his dream of owning the house. The novel tells the story of its protagonist, Mr.Biswas from birth to death in different phases and his problems of identity crisis. This paper deals with the life time struggle of Mr.biswas who achieved his dream of owning a house .Mr. biswas has he born with six fingers , astrologist …show more content…
Biswas" portrays through a series of homes he had and fairly brief life of a poor journalist turned civil servant in Port of Spain Trinidad, in the years before and after World War II. Born into an Indian family whose father worked in the sugar cane estates, Mr. Biswas, as he is called by the author from infancy on, becomes a sigh painter, and at the age of sixteen, is tricked into marrying Shama, the daughter of the large and powerful Tulsi family. The choice of the protagonist’s name in A House for Mr. Biswas is also interesting. Naipaul seems to have carefully chosen this name. His aim, I would argue, is not only to depict the Hindu background but also to relate it to the circumstances in which he is living. For instance, the protagonist’s First name is Mohun, which means ‘beloved’ (according to the novel), even though he is depicted as an individual who is branded as unlucky and who Experiences hostility and humiliation from society. Similarly, his surname, Biswas, means …show more content…
How terrible it would have been, he thinks, to have failed in this quest, “to have lived without even attempting to lay claim to one’s portion of the earth; to have lived and died as one had been born, unnecessary and unaccommodated”. In the long search for this accommodation – the what and why having been answered in the prologue, the novel’s course is about the how – Mr Biswas finds various lesser stratagems in which he can be temporarily housed. It begins with his name: not the “Mohun Biswas” inscribed belatedly on his birth certificate by a solicitor, but the “Mr Biswas” by which we know him, right from the cradle. Mr Biswas faces many humiliations, but is rarely shorn of the modicum of dignity the honorific guarantees. The retention of this proper form of address is both comic and tense, particularly in the early sections of the