Retreating Violence in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

ABSTRACT

The present research concentrates on the issue of violence in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, which is a landmark in the history of Indian English novel. After Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s children, The Shadow Lines has, unanimously been acknowledged as a masterpiece that attracted reader’s attention. Ghosh reveals that violence creates havoc in human lives. It cannot be justified at any cost, which the core message that the novelist wants to deliver through the novel. The present endeavor is to highlight the events and incidents where violence has been condemned directly or indirectly.

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