Anita Desai exhibits a strong inclination towards the existentialist interpretation of the human predicamentin her novels.Chracters are "individuals for whom aloneness alone,is the sole natural condition,aloneness alone the treasure worth treasuring",as Desai once said in an interview.Her novel,Fire on the Mountain revolves around the inner lives of its three protagonists,Nanda Kaul,Raka and Ila Das,who are embodiments of alienation experienced by the individual in a hostile world.
Her novel, Fire on the Mountain revolves around the inner lives of its three protagonists, Nanda Kaul, Raka and Ila Das, who are embodiments of alienation experienced by the individual in a hostile world. Living alone in the bleakness of Carignano, with the exception …show more content…
And the martial disharmony in her life is thus increased. Accompanied by two her children, Sita escapes to Manori, the island of miracles, in desperation and disillusionment. Unable to bear the anguish of another pregnancy, she comes here in order not to give birth. The island house, deserted for twenty years, symbolizes her temperamental condition. As the island concretizes the feeling of isolation for Sita, she retreats into it as into a womb, with an obsessive desire to recapture once again her childhood innocence and purity. Obviously, her own frustration with her life in Bombay drives her in desire to provide her unborn infant with a world that is incorrupt. Sita is obsessed with her loveless marriage with Raman. Here marital relations as well as abnormal man-woman relationship have been portrayed with a remarkable poignancy. Sita is married woman and has four children, but in the very picture of misery and dejection. She feels herself to be a prisoner in a house which offers her nothing but a crust of dull tedium, of hopeless disappointment. Her unhappiness in married life finds expression in feelings of contempt for the friends and colleagues of her husband. After unpacking her things and lying down with her children, Sita ruminates recalling her unhappy married life and her childhood spent on the island with her father who had become a legend in his lifetime having brought water from the well to the inhabitants of the island and taught them more profitable ways of framing. Her frequent return to her childhood days implies her refusal to grow up and accept the responsibilities of adult life and her inability to comprehend the past conspires against her marital harmony. Her alienation from all experience is due to her love for life and her reluctance
Her novel, Fire on the Mountain revolves around the inner lives of its three protagonists, Nanda Kaul, Raka and Ila Das, who are embodiments of alienation experienced by the individual in a hostile world. Living alone in the bleakness of Carignano, with the exception …show more content…
And the martial disharmony in her life is thus increased. Accompanied by two her children, Sita escapes to Manori, the island of miracles, in desperation and disillusionment. Unable to bear the anguish of another pregnancy, she comes here in order not to give birth. The island house, deserted for twenty years, symbolizes her temperamental condition. As the island concretizes the feeling of isolation for Sita, she retreats into it as into a womb, with an obsessive desire to recapture once again her childhood innocence and purity. Obviously, her own frustration with her life in Bombay drives her in desire to provide her unborn infant with a world that is incorrupt. Sita is obsessed with her loveless marriage with Raman. Here marital relations as well as abnormal man-woman relationship have been portrayed with a remarkable poignancy. Sita is married woman and has four children, but in the very picture of misery and dejection. She feels herself to be a prisoner in a house which offers her nothing but a crust of dull tedium, of hopeless disappointment. Her unhappiness in married life finds expression in feelings of contempt for the friends and colleagues of her husband. After unpacking her things and lying down with her children, Sita ruminates recalling her unhappy married life and her childhood spent on the island with her father who had become a legend in his lifetime having brought water from the well to the inhabitants of the island and taught them more profitable ways of framing. Her frequent return to her childhood days implies her refusal to grow up and accept the responsibilities of adult life and her inability to comprehend the past conspires against her marital harmony. Her alienation from all experience is due to her love for life and her reluctance