Ambivalence

imagination. My paper attempts to analyse the diasporic experience in JhumpaLahiri’sThe Interpreter ofMaladies addressing the themes of immigration, collision of cultures, alienation, identity loss or identity crisis, ambivalence and marginalisation. Keywords: Diaspora, ambivalence and marginalisation THE CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA:A REFLECTION OF JHUMPA LAHIRI'S INTERPRETORS OF MALADIES ‘Diaspora’ is derived from the Greek…

feminine or masculine persona creating her own world, very often confronting various violent consequences and yearning “for an abode both in body and in the commune”. (Yadav; 53-54) In the poetry book, Till the End of Her Subsistence, “this he-she ambivalence” and desire for “gender conformity” is well expressed with poetic delineation: “……..she feels exiled From her own sex to borders Femininity to Masculinity None can be a home to her… …sometimes she questions herself ‘Is she a girl or a…

In this book, everything starts with a irresponsible parents and harsh divorce in Boston. A detective decide to help the kid of the family. Teach him the responsibility of self-management and how to grow within his life by himself. Spenser, a private investigator from Boston. He has showed multiples qualities throughout the book such as entertaining, knowledgeable ,caring, and thoughtful. He helps Paul realize his potential as he has a different family’s environment than the others. He brings…

exiled from himself, and so can win no victory whatsoever" (8). Willey is sure that if he is not successful in business, he is not deserved to be loved and respected by his family. Bloom states that Willey is destroyed by love and by the "inevitable ambivalences that attend family romances" (9). The true aim of the main character is to experience "a parent's love and hope" that Biff, his oldest son will be able to supersede his limited success in career (Sterling 93). However, Harold Bloom says…

Both Barrett-Browning's poems Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) and Fitzgerald's novel The Gnat Gatsby (1926) use an exploration of idealised love to challenge and affirm their contexts. The texts challenge their social contexts, Barrett-Browning suggesting the power of love to challenge Victorian gender roles and Fitzgerald to challenge the American Dream, while also affirming their ideological contexts of Victorian positivism and modernism respectively in relation to the ability to understand…

T.S. Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock and Ernest Hemingway’s Jake Barnes struggle to find meaningful ways to live their lives. They stay on the sidelines, searching for a way to find happiness in an unforgiving modern world. While Jake Barnes does find some shred of success, J. Alfred Prufrock does not. J. Alfred Prufrock longs for happiness in his shallow life. He hopes that finding a woman to marry will provide him with a desirable, exuberant life. In Eliot's poem, Prufrock attends an upper-class…

The Unfaithful Sin In the story “Young Goodman Brown” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is about a man in search of his faith. He perceives his neighbors as a healthy community dedicated to serving the people with good wills. This perception Goodman Brown holds soon changes upon the life-changing journey into the dark forest. This story is not only indicative to evil within humanity but also, the Dark Romantics Era that helped illustrate this story. “Young Goodman Brown” constructed a story of a…

Barry Schwartz’s “The Paradox of Choice: Why less is more” is a book about having too many choices, and the negative impact on society. Schwartz explains that being given too many options can lead people to experience high levels of anxiety that could eventually turn into depression. He found, when given a “trade-off decision,” Schwartz (2000); a choice between two things, people found it nearly impossible to decide between the two items. Schwartz defined this as a loss because a person feels…

Setting (Helena Kim) Originally in Hatchet, Brian lands in the Canadian Wilderness. However in Abandoned, Britney would land in the desert. Desert is hostile place to survive for human or either animals. It has lack of vegetation, water and has barren landscape. This would make the audience to wonder, ‘how would a young girl survive in a desert?’ The harsh environment of the desert would create more tense than a Canadian Wilderness. Also for most of the teenagers, desert is an abstract place…

them has gradually been vague, and thus Western culture loses its purity on the basis of which it advertises its superiority and advancement. This hybrid cultural view is rightly similar to what Bhabha puts forward in “Signs Taken for Wonders: The Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May1817”—the concept of hybridity. In it, Bhabha, by applying some theories from many theorists, M. Bakhtin, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault in particular, has successfully demonstrated that…