The Images of Male Characters in the Booker Prize Winning Indian Novels of Salman Rushdie Arundhati Roy Kiran Desai and Aravind Adiga A Comparative Study

Abstract

It is the introductory chapter. In it an effort is made to define the necessity newlineof presentation of the images of male characters. The present research work is an newlineattempt to study, analyse, judge and evaluate from multiple perspectives the images of newlinemale characters, their role, behaviour, attitude, temperament, aspiration, moral values, newlinegood or bad qualities and their relation with female characters and vice-versa and the newlinetype of treatment given to the male characters by the male and the female novelists in newlinethe Booker Prize winning Indian novels, Midnight s Children, The God of Small newlineThings, The Inheritance of Loss and The White Tiger of Salman Rushdie, Arundhati newlineRoy, Kiran Desai and Aravind Adiga respectively. It also tries to find some important newlinetrends and issues in the aforesaid novels. The present research is divided into seven newlinechapters which are as under: newlineChapter II: It focuses on the images of male characters in Salman Rushdie s novel newlineMidnight Children. The major male characters of Midnight s Children are Saleem, his newlinefather Ahmed Sinai, his grandfather Aadam Aziz, Shiva the antagonist and Nadir newlineKhan and the minor male characters are Mian Abdullah, Lifa Das, Ramram Seth, Tai, newlineCaptain Sabermati, Homi Catrack, Mustafa, Haneef and Ghani. The story of newlineMidnight s Children covers an extended world especially the Indian subcontinent. newlineSaleem describes India and the various governments succeeding from time to time in newlinea very remarkable way. Salman Rushdie s delineation of socio-political events in the newlinenovel is more impressive and effective. The birth of Saleem Sinai is a unique event in newlinethe novel. He was born at the exact moment of the birth of India as a free nation. After newlinepartition Saleem s father decides to live in Bombay where Saleem remains to stay in newlineorder to search his imaginary homeland. Rushdie records Saleem s anger at the selling newlineof his childhood home in Bombay and his forced migration to Pakistan. He wishes to newlinereturn his homeland which he has lost. Saleem Sinai observes the political turmoil in newlinePakistan he