Rural Novel Analysis

2 A Typical Rural Novel:

Malela Jiv is not only a story of love and suffering. Rather it is a story that highlights the human emotions and inspires to face the challenges of life. It is not only the story of Kanji and Jivi but rather it is the story of the human couple. It is the sensitive story of the entire society. Besides, it is the rural element that beautifies the characters, their emotions and their dealings with one another superbly. It is the element of rural setting that the novelist has used in shaping the characters and the theme of love in the novel. Here Pannalal presents the characters speaking their dialectal language, rural human mind, the social and religious events, folk songs, folklore, sayings. All these are the fundamental

Bronte‘s distinguishes two characters (Heathcliff and Edgar) behavior and suggests that each character depends on and informs the others

.They together create the critical situation; therefore, the study of human life and behavior are an exploration of the character‘s with society. Bronte proposes two categories that regulate the interactive relations among these two characters. These categories are class or status of men and women. Our view of nature as a force in need of taming goes hack to prehistoric

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times when our ancestors recognized the need, for their own survival and the continuation of the species, to gain some control over themselves and their environment. Paleolithic man was but a small figure in a vast landscape and surely felt a strong sense of vulnerability in regards to the overwhelming odds he faced. Artifacts dating back to this period indicate man 's efforts to understand, placate and hopefully subdue the often hostile yet profoundly awe inspiring forces of nature. From these attempts evolved a system of alliances and codes for interaction that we know as civilization (Beitchman,

Civilization does not transcend or eliminate the underlying violence within each of us, it sublimates it and attempts to direct it into socially acceptable outlets. Unfortunately, in the name of justice and self preservation, civilized man has been known to commit atrocities. Wuthering Heights is an attempt to understand and reconcile those natural forces within us with the expectations of society. Heathcliff is an example of the effects of cruelty, deprivation and alienation that are the byproducts of civilization. His brutality is a direct result of his having been denied the fundamental need for nurturing those children thrives on. Abandoned as a child, uncared for and unloved, he was left to fend for himself in what must have seemed a hostile and frightening world. Constant rejection and humiliation stimulated his desire for revenge. Having been rejected he in turn rejects the system that spawned him and he sets out to destroy it. He attempts to turn the cruelty he experienced back on those whom he feels have wronged him and thereby relieve his own suffering. He substitutes hate for love, violence for peace, and disorder for harmony. He brutally separates those whom he considers his enemies from their comforts and security, their honor, and finally from those for whom they care. Unable to accept the need to control and modify his passions as a means of partaking in the love and