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The Man Eater Of Malgudi Analysis

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“Every man can think he is great live forever, but one can guess, From which quarter his doom will come”. -The Man Eater of Malgudi

Eighth novel of India’s most creative story teller R. K. Narayan is the guide, perhaps his most renowned novel. It won him the Sahitya academy award too. It has social as well as cultural implications and that is the motive behind selecting this novel for research. The guide, like other novels of Narayan, discusses and shed lights to the fact that India is a nation full of religion and cultural pride. The people are greatly influenced by the religion and their beliefs are too powerful regarding such things. The inside with words of C. D. Narasimhaiah, deals from the inside with its never-ending faith in God and goodness. Narsimhaiah notes that,
In the guide, India is seen from within, Raju is India itself, i.e India’s remarkable supremacy and deep inner preference to revive and work on its way to fulfillment.

The guide represents rejection of westernization and the celebration of tradition. Narayan is like the critical inside that is alive to observe and criticize the inevitable aspects of Indian culture. As in the words of Sen:
Narayan is aware of the inescapability of change, at the same time, he is also aware of the problem that concentrate the processes of change in a traditional society.

The social change that Narayan wants to display is a part and parcel of the Indian literature. The

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