V.S. Naipaul, a Trinidad-born British author of Indian origin is an eminent commonwealth writer. He has been recognized as a literary giant, one of the finest writers in the English language today. Rootlessness and alienation form the dominant themes of Naipaul’s best novels. His novels show his obsession with the lot of the Caribbean people – their displacement, exile, dispossession, alienation and isolation. He analyses how the colonial experience of displacement and the consequent experience of acculturation inevitably lead to a larger problem of a lost centre resulting in utter disorder and confusion everywhere. Disorganization, absurdity, cruelty, brutality and insensitivity which threaten man’s existence have become the main characteristic
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A kind of a crisis of identity of the colonized has been the main plank in the novels of Naipaul. In A House for Mr. Biswas, Naipaul deals sensitively with the East Indians’ struggle to find a foothold in the New World. In this novel, he goes deep into the psyche of an individual to reveal his craving of an authentic selfhood. This novel delineates the entire story of Mohan Biswas from birth to death in which his relentless struggle is mentioned against odds. But ultimately he is successful in finding a house which is not normally possible for a man like him having limited resources. This is not his individual story but becomes a social history of the East Indians of Trinidad. There is no doubt a description of cultural ambivalence but the focus is over East Indians’ efforts to get foothold in a New …show more content…
By presenting Tulsidom as the monolith of conventions' Naipaul has attacked illiteracy, ritualism and conservatism of the tradition ridden Hindu community in the West Indies. He ridicules the traditional Hindu community which is content to live in a shell and blindly sick to its rituals and customs, without questioning their real significance. He believes that these rituals are the unnatural social and racial impediments which tend to thwart the growth of personality and individuality of the people of a community. Such a society offers only failure and discontent. That is why Naipaul's protagonist refuses to surrender to the meaninglessness, void and darkness of Tulsidom and breaks away from it to live an independent
A kind of a crisis of identity of the colonized has been the main plank in the novels of Naipaul. In A House for Mr. Biswas, Naipaul deals sensitively with the East Indians’ struggle to find a foothold in the New World. In this novel, he goes deep into the psyche of an individual to reveal his craving of an authentic selfhood. This novel delineates the entire story of Mohan Biswas from birth to death in which his relentless struggle is mentioned against odds. But ultimately he is successful in finding a house which is not normally possible for a man like him having limited resources. This is not his individual story but becomes a social history of the East Indians of Trinidad. There is no doubt a description of cultural ambivalence but the focus is over East Indians’ efforts to get foothold in a New …show more content…
By presenting Tulsidom as the monolith of conventions' Naipaul has attacked illiteracy, ritualism and conservatism of the tradition ridden Hindu community in the West Indies. He ridicules the traditional Hindu community which is content to live in a shell and blindly sick to its rituals and customs, without questioning their real significance. He believes that these rituals are the unnatural social and racial impediments which tend to thwart the growth of personality and individuality of the people of a community. Such a society offers only failure and discontent. That is why Naipaul's protagonist refuses to surrender to the meaninglessness, void and darkness of Tulsidom and breaks away from it to live an independent