Literature As An Artifact Of Culture Analysis

Literature as the artifact of culture, it provides significant datum about the social setup and structure, mores and morals, religious ethos and orientation, trends and traditions, values and attitudes of a society in which a protagonist exists or struggles to exist (Spair-Whorf Hypothesis Chapter 1). It is language through which process of construction embarks on issues of identity, cultural, and ideology (Wykes and Gunter 2005:61). It aims to construct, deconstruct or reconstruct the worldview of any character in a narrative (Carroll, 2008). Language used by literary aces has manifold functions to perform; one of the functions is to entertain while using satire or irony and to communicate the social and cultural portrayal (Hymes, 1972). Quite effectively, such information can be explored in terms of comprehending the writers’ mindsets, ideological basis of a society, national ways, ethnicity, identity and cultural implications. It also operates effectively for slotting the members of a society into a distinct nation on religious basis. According to Annas & Rosen (1994) all the genres of literature including poems, plays, dramas, short stories, novel and essays portray a wide range of attitudes about gender, …show more content…
The chosen excerpt consists of 10 pages, 415 lines, and 3362 words as a whole. The novel primarily focuses on the lives of Christian community in a metropolitan city like Karachi. The main protagonist Alice is a Catholic Christian, an only daughter of Joseph Bhatti. The narrative starts with the disposition in which she is struggling hard to secure a job at a hospital as junior nurse after an imprisonment of fourteen months from Borstal jail. The selected chapter is mainly dealt with the description of her experience with interview penal consisting high slot of hospital