Flow of Emotions From Despair to Delightfulness: A Study of Kamala Markandaya‘s Nectar in a Sieve

Dr. Indu Sharma

Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

Flow of Emotions From Despair to Delightfulness: A Study of Kamala Markandaya‘s Nectar in a Sieve

Dr. Indu Sharma

Abstract :

The aim of this paper is to analyse the several layers of despair and delight moments— sunshine and shower, sweet and sour, and, happiness and sorrow moments in the novel Nectar in a Sieve. These two emotions go hand in hand in human life, but she always propagates that our faith in positive outlook always help us to search for delightful moments in life amid grim despair. She has realistically depicted the social problems which are closely related to human life and with her pen of realism portrayed the struggle between haves and haves not, sophisticated rich and poverty–stricken poor, landlords and bonded labourers, and so on. Hence, the paper analyses the two contrasting phases of life through the episodes of desperation and delighted moments in the novel Nectar in a Sieve.