The Man Eater Of Magudi Analysis

promotes blind acceptance of the traditional values of life and seems to point out, overtly and obliquely the value of heritage, of a past: what the Shastras have prescribed is good for everybody for a peaceful and harmonious and happy life as a result of which any revolt against the set system or tradition brings despair and frustration, which amounts to their ultimate defeat. It is important to note that one of the concerns of Narayan has been the study and exploration of the nature of evil in human life as was done by such great writers as Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Melville, Henry James and Conrad. Narayan believes that the evil is within us and it is to be fought not only by the individual alone himself but also by all human beings. He has been preoccupied with the challenging problem of evil in life and the possible solution for it.
In The Man-Eater of Malgudi, for example, Vasu’s identity as an evil force is established fully for the …show more content…
They believe that in his fiction these archetypal figures appear frequently. According to Ashok Kumar Jha the plots of Narayan’s The Guide and The Man Eater of Malgudi have archetypal patterns. In The Guide, Narayan explains the archetypal drive working within every individual towards acquiring the knowledge of the true nature of the self and the hindrances created in this process which form another archetypal pattern in the novel. Archetype of the serpent woman forms the essential part of the main archetypal pattern. In another novel, The Man Eater of Malgudi, archetypal pattern of “inevitable triumph of good and the destruction of evil” which also forms the pattern of myth, is enunciated. It is also important to note that the archetypal conflict between good and evil and the inevitable triumph of good and destruction of evil, as enunciated in Classical Mythology too, forms the pattern of The Man Eater of