Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. “Some insects, fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, cnidarians, echinoderms and tunicates undergo metamorphosis, which is usually accompanied by a change of habitat or behavior”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki). But this change has been incorporated to human’s life and an attempt is made to establish it to the characters of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel “The Mistress of Spices”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a famous woman writer, who explores the nebulous and fastidious labyrinths of women psyche trapped in the universe of emigration. An attempt has been made as how she put forth the emotional world of women characters bows …show more content…
Divakaruni comments, “I wrote the book in a spirit of play, collapsing the divisions between the realistic world of twentieth century America and the timeless one of myth in my attempt to create a modern fable.” (Video: PBS Interview on Sister of My Heart, Mistress of Spices, and Creative Writing)
The Mistress of Spices is unique blend of prose and poetry, as Laura Merlin in a review in World Literature Today says “in this exuberant first novel builds up an enchanted story upon the fault line in American identity that lies between the self and community”(‘Review of The Mistress of the Spices’, The World Literature Today,207). She presents her own experience through Tilo who faces many troubles in search of her self identity. It spells a message of hope for many people in the future. Thus Tilo’s direct confrontation with the alien culture leads her to a discovery of her
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a famous woman writer, who explores the nebulous and fastidious labyrinths of women psyche trapped in the universe of emigration. An attempt has been made as how she put forth the emotional world of women characters bows …show more content…
Divakaruni comments, “I wrote the book in a spirit of play, collapsing the divisions between the realistic world of twentieth century America and the timeless one of myth in my attempt to create a modern fable.” (Video: PBS Interview on Sister of My Heart, Mistress of Spices, and Creative Writing)
The Mistress of Spices is unique blend of prose and poetry, as Laura Merlin in a review in World Literature Today says “in this exuberant first novel builds up an enchanted story upon the fault line in American identity that lies between the self and community”(‘Review of The Mistress of the Spices’, The World Literature Today,207). She presents her own experience through Tilo who faces many troubles in search of her self identity. It spells a message of hope for many people in the future. Thus Tilo’s direct confrontation with the alien culture leads her to a discovery of her