Topic: NovelsPrepared by: Drashti Mehta

PG Enrollment No:PG13101021Course M.A.

Email id: drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.comSubmitted to: Smt. S.B. Gardi, Department of

English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinghji Bhavnagar UniversityBhavnagar University

Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India)

Neo Classical Literature

• Gulliver's Travels- Johnathan Swift• Satirical exposure of a fictional illusion• Masterpiece of satire• Swift: ‘Man is not a rational animal though man is

certainly capable of becoming rational’• Scope of Satire in this illusionary novel• Satire full of Allegories• Moral Purpose• Comic and Corrosive Satire• Satire in the illusion based on reality• Pride as a satire

Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe

• Moral Tale

• Theme of Alienation and Isolation

• Colonialism

• Master slave relationship

• Imperialism

• Existentialism

• Language

• Theme of Journey

Tom Jones Fielding

• Social Realism

• Rural life

• City life of London

• Educational institutes

• Female characters

• Politics

• Religion

• Journey of a Hero

• Themes

Virtue

Hypocrisy

Journey

Romance

Love

Contemporary Social Scenario

Patriotism

Stereotypes

Art as a theme

Indian Writing in English

• Kanthapura- Raja Rao• Class structure in Kanthapura• Untouchability• Structure of the village• Superstitions among people• Exploitation due to class• Caste and creed• Class discrimination• Society and descrimination• Myth of Ramayan• Gandhiji• Moorthy

Romantic Literature

• Frankenstein- Marry Shelly• Science Fiction• “I am Fearless, therefore powerful”• Creator- Victor• Challenge to God/ Authority• Theme of Revenge• Science V/S Nature• Man V/S Science• Science as a mystery

Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen

• Two Sister’s story

• Mind V/S Heart

• Society V/S individual

• Theme of marriage

Victorian Literature

• Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens

• Theme of Education

• Theme of inward journey

• Child Labor

• Exploitation

• Human V/S Human

Middlemarch-George Eliot

• Family Background

• Trade in Middlemarch

• Women and society

• Conflict in town

• Melancholy

The American Literature

• The Scarlet Literature-Nathaneil Hawthrone

The Old Man and The Sea- Earnest Hemingway

• Honor in Struggle

• Defeat and Death

• Pride-Greatness and determination

• Life from death crucification from death

• “What Man Proposes Man Disposes”

• “A Man can be destroyed but not be defeated”

Frantz Fanon

• Black Skin White Masks

• Language

• Color

• Colonization

• Psychology

• Reality

The New Literature

• Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ the Call Centre

• Modernity

• Popular Novel

• Magic Realism

• Human- God

• Power V/S creativity

Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending

• Role of Memory

• Past

• History

• Aging

• Documentation

J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

• Role of imagination

• Man

• Magic

• Difficulty of loving the dead

• Importance of second chance

• Keeping faith with death theme of love

• Rumor-gossip

• Mastering death

• Avada Kedavra

• Resurrection stone

• Power

• Betrayal

• Journey

• The Locket Horcrux

• The Elder Wand

• Good V/S Evil Sacrifice

• Journey

• Identity- Ambiguity

• Power

Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger

• A realistic picture of New India• A Shocking commentary on

the darkness of shining India• Globalization• Individualism• Freedom Immoral Corruption• Social Class/Caste• Rooster Coop• Use of Binary Opposition for

Satire• Controversy over ‘Real India’• Narrative Pattern and the Use

of Rhetoric

• Morality• Pairs and Dualities• Family• Globalization• Social Mobility• Identity• Corruption in India• Lightness and Darkness• China’s Relationship to India• A Galaxy of Witty Remarks in

the Novel

Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code

• The false conflict between faith and Knowledge

• The Intelligence of Women• The Holy Grail as mystic vessel• Abundance and the New Age• Feminine sacredness• Quest• Language and meaning• Fact in Fiction• Suspense• Mystery

• Art• Sexism• Red Hair • Blood• Cell phones• Good intensions win over

greed• Search for tryth is timeless• Christianity V/S Paganism• Sacrifice

The African Literature

• Ngugi Wa Thiongo- A Grain of Wheat

• Mau Mau rebellion

• History

J.M. Coetzee -Waiting for the Barbarians

• Social Psychological theme

• Nationalism

• Colonialism

• Hysteria about Barbarians

• Allegorical interpretation

• Allegorical interpretation

Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart

• Nature V/S Human

• Father V/S son

• Tradition V/s Change

• Myth

• God

• Language as a sign of cultural change

• Varying interpretations of Masculanity

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