PAIN DOES NOT A MATTER TO A MAN?- HE HAS TO FIGHT AGAINST THE ODDS TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL SURVIVOR.
- M.Phil. Research Scholar Department of English, Vels University, Chennai.
- Assistant Professor Department of English, Vels University, Chennai.
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World wars were an enormous loss, because it collapsed and shook the entire world upside down. As a consequence, people lost their identity, there were lack of food, they were homeless and hopeless, everything seen as barren, alienation, emptiness and absurdity, survival become a big puzzle for them. This study is an attempt to show the obstacles faced by the people in the first half of Twentieth Century with reference to the novels of Earnest Hemingway?s The Old Man and the Sea, Daniel Defoe?s Robinson Crusoe, Saul bellow?s Dangling Man and Seize the Day. These are well known works that depicts the effects caused by the world wars. However, the style of writing may differ to one another; but their only intension of writing is to show the confused state of world after the wars.
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[S. Haritha and P. Suresh. (2017); PAIN DOES NOT A MATTER TO A MAN?- HE HAS TO FIGHT AGAINST THE ODDS TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL SURVIVOR. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 1787-1790] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
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