Representations of Multiple Identities in Middle-Class Society: A Comparative Literary Analysis of Aravind Adiga and Amitav Ghosh

Abstract

Literature explores the philosophical movements and ideas of the developing society. It gives a detailed account of human life based on desire and emotion. The concept of literature changes over time as well. Literature has an overwhelming approach in twenty first century which means to connect the world literature with each other. Contemporary literature plays constructive role in the lives of individual and middle class society, and allows us to understand the representation of Multiple Identities in the Middle Class Society and cultural change at particular time. Amitav Ghosh belongs to the new generations of writers who overthrow the dependency of colonial power and create own identity in the society in the world of literature in English. He established himself as one of the most leading writers of his generation. His fiction and non - fiction appeals representation of Multiple Identities in the Middle Class Society issues with philosophical representation and presents innovative ideas and narrative techniques in his writing. Ghosh experiments to reconstruct the public history of Indian subcontinent. His experiences discuss the various issues of contemporary India and it is the aim of this novel. Aravind Adiga’s fiction and non - fiction centered on India, covers almost every aspect of representation of Multiple Identities in the Middle Class Society life of nation. He raises the modern issues like spiritual subjugation and violence with women, terrorism, gambling, etc. He focuses on the psychological issues like quest for identity, dislocation, alienation, loneliness, frustration, fear and so on. The current representation of Multiple Identities in the Middle Class Society taboos are a theme of his various works.