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hand confronting t.is fatner, with Achilles before ~roy, withyoung David Slaying Goliath and with Percival the rustic GrailKnight who saves the team waiting under the Fisher King. In~atural, tnough there are other mythlc associations, "thecentral myth is the pastoral, bringing together vegetationrites, th'z Fistler King motif, suggestion ot Grail Quest andperhaps most importantly, the relationship of youthful son andaged father". (Mellard 1957,6) The Fisher Klng reigning over adesolate wasteland IS, Pop Flsher, the veteran manager of theNew York Knights baseball team and Roy Hobbs 1s the heroic"youth" who revlves the team.Bas+bull has yiven hilo only an occaslon to representlarger human issuc~s and probe the "drama of moral issues"(Hlcks 1963,311 The Arthurian legend and Jungian mythicpsychology are use? to interpret the ritual that makes baseballlnto a symbol of man's psychological and moral situation.Malamud's prinary c:c:-tc.
appropriate to our predicament. It is thls which gives to his(Malamud's) work special authority and special richnessn .(fiedler 1963,105)ZTls NaturaL 1s divided into two parts- "Pre-game" and"Better-up". The first part presents the misfortunes andinherent weaknesses of Roy which are expanded in the secondpart. Sidney Richman finds in this first part " the mythicformula of Initiation, Seperation and Return". (1968,41) ROYbeglns hls career by outpitching the reignlng champion, theWhammer. But at the end he is outpitched by a young boy freshfrom the country, Herman Younyberry. The fertility cycle isthus renewed. Seen in this context hlstory becomes myth. Therltual of burying the broken bat 'Wonderb~y' marks the end ofRoy's career. Unable to stand the slqht of a broken bat, heties the pieces with his shoe laces before the burial. It is asthough Roy were plecing together his dlslnteyrated self. In theend Roy ylelds himself to the young player, Youngberry whobecomes hrs 'mythical son'. Malamud sees baseball history as"the distillation of American llfe". He used real events toavclc contrivance and to reveal baseball as the ritual forexpressing American life and its predicament. The myth of thebaseball here ;nThe Natural is an amalgam of the heroic mythand ~ t s democratic offsprlng, the HOrOfia Alger story. RoyHobbs is a failed hero because he cannot act within a mythology
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From Marginality to Mainstream :A S
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DR. P.BALASWAMY,M.A.,PhDREADERDEPAR
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Llbrary, Osmania University Llbrary
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A NOTE ON DOCUMENTATIONfor quotatio
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in United States byand Company, Inc
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INTRODUCTION: IMMIGRANT SENSIBILITY
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eceived in the broad lap of our gre
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states brinqlnq the immigrant popul
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much for his metaphor of the United
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society happens to be a two-way pro
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The picture of the immigrant caught
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minds of men/women acting under the
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historical canvas, the American is
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some extent, with the United States
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neighbourhoods have also changed. E
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einforced and enhanced this primord
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prominence in movies, in the theatr
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Amerlcans of Asian extraction has q
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Mukherlee have all lllumlnated the
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parents had passed through Ellis Is
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Rmerica presented. Adapting tonot w
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deslgned to keep out anyone with to
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aslc emotions-the moral obligations
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finest, most characteristic Innovat
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The PeoDle; and three collections o
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Both Malamud and Mukher~ee reach th
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apart from maklng authors mutually
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CHAPTER I iTransgressions : The Hau
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contemporary Everyman / Everywoman
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~~~~~~------------>Destru~ti~e
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'tfirst important American writer t
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from 1949. The change gives both hi
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thought based on Reason, Science, I
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counter to their zeal for reformati
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coffrn. Wllly's slnking heart becom
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controlling them. They experience a
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hls/her moral self-but the former o
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takes up employment ln a dlstrict f
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hls theme, Spearmint's powerful the
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ln~reases, he Usurps the role Of a
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~h~ Great GatsbY tries to Come out
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acquire a new identity as lmmlgrant
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of an expatrlate, Mukherjee emphati
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"Hindus" and "Courtly Vision", Mukh
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(~~rkness II).....demonstrative fam
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exposed to blackmail. "The Indian f
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succeed in the New World. Most of t
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equired lt. Unfavourable experience
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arranges a Thanks-giving dlnner at
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the past as she rldes In a cab in N
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The Liberatlon Tlgers were In full-
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She is in another sense following I
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CHAPTER I I ISuffering And Compassi
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mechanical purishment and have thei
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(w-)-all of whom struggle to escape
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The importance of the family and th
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distinctive traditions, Personaliti
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lB ny Favcrite Color" and The which
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make ernpatb.y -mPssslbla. Wright's
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of the Thlrtles serve as an effecti
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and moral maturity.At the social le
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capacity for suffering and ill-luck
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ut the motivari3-6 is more I:ompl~v
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easoned fictional representations o
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elationship, to marry, to have chil
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soth Mukherjee and Malamud have don
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aised to be passive and dependent a
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different personae, Mukherjee is In
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~harati Mukherjee emphatically plac
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CHAPTERVlConclusion : Moral Centre
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nukherjee's commitment for the libe
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completely unanchored, groping for
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"fixes" their Status and acceptabil
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"Jewishness", according to Alter, i
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attling against the flaws in their
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etterment that there is a Jew in hi
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eauty of the human spirit.This huma
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very often these Indians in America
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of their life.In ~merica, Indian wo
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without the chance of ever having a
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mobile for them to indulge in the l
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Certainly a writer who sees the dea
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and reflection, he arrives at a rea
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As faith in Judaism weakened and sc
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militancy. Malamud'sprotagonists ar
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placed. Dubin in Dubin's Lives by s
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transformation while trying to get
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into the longer, broader and more s
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challenges of time.Jasmine's declsi
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mlssion-the greatness and richness
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Holocaust and tho security of Israe
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wonder her stories and novels were
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Bharati Mukherjee may represent the
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A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYI. PRIMARY SOU
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National University Publications;Ke
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U,. New York.Carb, Alison B. 1990.
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 1947.Trans.Cons
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Fitzqerald, Francis.1973. h UVietrl
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Handy W. J. 1977. "The Malamud Hero
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Introductien t~ the SasU Pf Enalish
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Series,Washington: PublishedUnited
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Nazareth. Patrr. 1986. "Total Vlsio
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Roth, Phllip. 1961. "Writlng Americ
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Snlth, K.Neh Delhi: Sterling Publis
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kasl, Mur lel. 15,9!1. '*?x Middlem
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