Paper-4 Presentation
- 1. Name:-Heerva Bhatt Course :-M.A. (sem.1) Paper no :-4 (Indian Writing in English ) Roll no.:-14 Batch :-2017-2019 Topic:-Myth in Kanthapura. Email Id :-heervabhatt96@gmail.com Submitted :-Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English, Bhavnagar .
- 2. Raja Rao was an Indian writer. He was powerful writer and all of Raja Rao’s novels explore philosophical concepts. About Kanthapura :- ‘Kanthapura‘is the story of a village in South India. In this village we see the class or caste discrimination between Brahmin, Shudra and Parihas.
- 3. Myth is always comes from past.It is one type of story that may or may not be true. Myth is one type of particular device that introduce cultural background and historical movement. ‘Kanthapura‘is the recreation of myth. Raja Rao is using effective mythical technique.
- 4. This novel gives us social,political ,religious and mythical scenario of 1930s. Significance of Myth:- Part of Indian life. Stories in Ramayana and Mahabharata. Satyagrahis in Prison. The Harikathas.
- 5. The Myth of Ramayana :- Rama :-Gandhiji Sita:-County under British Rule. Ravana :-The demon for British rulers. Jawaharlal Nehru:-Bharat. Fight of Gandhiji:-Rama British Rule:-Ravana. Shiva three eyed God:- Swaraj. Mohandas :-Krishna. Foreign rule:-Serpent.
- 6. In the village we see the one temple and this temple is most important for villagers. In this temple Jayaramachar narrate,’Harikathas‘and many kathas related on Gandhian ideas. Raja Rao tells us that as soon as Gandhi was born,”The four wide walls began to shine like the kingdom of the hardly was in the cradle than the began to lisp the language of wisdom.”
- 7. The Harikatha man Jayaramachar raises Gandhi to the level of God by his activities with one particular feat of Krishna. “You remember how Krishna when he was But a babel of four,had began to fight against Demons and had killed the Serpent Kali,so Too our Mohandas began to fight, against The enemies of the country.”
- 8. Use of myth in contemporary Indian literature :- Indian Mythology is a vast chest full of stories.And these stories have lent themselves to generations of people’s imaginations, thinking and understanding of life. The last few years have seen the emergence of the classical Indian myths,reinvented and retold by lenses that are relevant for readers today. Here is a list of books that have explored Indian mythology beyond a classical approch:
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