Characterization and Diction in Anita Desai’s Fiction: Conceptualizing Ecofeminism

Page: 33-36

Nitika Rani (Department of English, Government College, Hisar, Haryana)

Anita Desai believes firmly in the impeccable dignity and in the inviolable sanctity of the self. In her novels she highlights the fact that without this sense of dignity and sanctity of the self, existential awakening of the self remains vulnerable and the inner space can once again become contaminated. She is an explorer par excellence of the interior human experience. Desai portrays the monotony of quotidian dreams of the individual, the probable impossibility of knowing one’s own self and the paradoxical nature of human existence. Desai herself feels that all her writing is an effort to discover and then to underline and finally to convey the true significance of things.