1. Topic: Novels
Prepared by: DrashtiMehta
PG EnrollmentNo:PG13101021
Course M.A.
Emailid: drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.com
Submitted to: Smt. S.B. Gardi, Department of
English,MaharajaKrishnakumarsinghji
Bhavnagar University
Bhavnagar University
Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India)

2. Neo Classical Literature
• Gulliver's Travels- Johnathan Swift
• Satirical exposure of a fictional illusion
• Masterpiece of satire
• Swift: ‘Man is not a rational animal though man is
certainly capable of becoming rational’
• Scope of Satire in this illusionary novel
• Satire full of Allegories
• Moral Purpose
• Comic and Corrosive Satire
• Satire in the illusion based on reality
• Pride as a satire

3. Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe
• Moral Tale
• Theme of Alienation and Isolation
• Colonialism
• Master slave relationship
• Imperialism
• Existentialism
• Language
• Theme of Journey

4. Tom Jones Fielding
• Social Realism
• Rural life
• City life of London
• Educational institutes
• Female characters
• Politics
• Religion
• Journey of a Hero
• Themes
Virtue
Hypocrisy
Journey
Romance
Love
Contemporary Social Scenario
Patriotism
Stereotypes
Art as a theme

5. Indian Writing in English
• Kanthapura- Raja Rao
• Class structure in Kanthapura
• Untouchability
• Structure of the village
• Superstitions among people
• Exploitation due to class
• Caste and creed
• Class discrimination
• Society and descrimination
• Myth of Ramayan
• Gandhiji
• Moorthy

6. Romantic Literature
• Frankenstein- Marry Shelly
• Science Fiction
• “I am Fearless, therefore powerful”
• Creator- Victor
• Challenge to God/ Authority
• Theme of Revenge
• Science V/S Nature
• Man V/S Science
• Science as a mystery

7. Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen
• Two Sister’s story
• Mind V/S Heart
• Society V/S individual
• Theme of marriage

8. Victorian Literature
• Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
• Theme of Education
• Theme of inward journey
• Child Labor
• Exploitation
• Human V/S Human

9. Middlemarch-George Eliot
• Family Background
• Trade in Middlemarch
• Women and society
• Conflict in town
• Melancholy

10. The American Literature
• The Scarlet Literature-
Nathaneil Hawthrone

11. The Old Man and The Sea- Earnest
Hemingway
• Honor in Struggle
• Defeat and Death
• Pride-Greatness and
determination
• Life from death
crucification from death
• “What Man Proposes
Man Disposes”
• “A Man can be destroyed
but not be defeated”

12. Frantz Fanon
• Black Skin White Masks
• Language
• Color
• Colonization
• Psychology
• Reality

13. The New Literature
• Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ the Call Centre
• Modernity
• Popular Novel
• Magic Realism
• Human- God
• Power V/S creativity

14. Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending
• Role of Memory
• Past
• History
• Aging
• Documentation

15. J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter and
the Deathly Hallows
• Role of imagination
• Man
• Magic
• Difficulty of loving the
dead
• Importance of second
chance
• Keeping faith with
death theme of love
• Rumor-gossip
• Mastering death
• Avada Kedavra
• Resurrection stone
• Power
• Betrayal
• Journey
• The Locket Horcrux
• The Elder Wand
• Good V/S Evil Sacrifice
• Journey
• Identity- Ambiguity
• Power

16. Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger
• A realistic picture of New India
• A Shocking commentary on
the darkness of shining India
• Globalization
• Individualism
• Freedom Immoral Corruption
• Social Class/Caste
• Rooster Coop
• Use of Binary Opposition for
Satire
• Controversy over ‘Real India’
• Narrative Pattern and the Use
of Rhetoric
• Morality
• Pairs and Dualities
• Family
• Globalization
• Social Mobility
• Identity
• Corruption in India
• Lightness and Darkness
• China’s Relationship to India
• A Galaxy of Witty Remarks in
the Novel

17. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code
• The false conflict between
faith and Knowledge
• The Intelligence of Women
• The Holy Grail as mystic vessel
• Abundance and the New Age
• Feminine sacredness
• Quest
• Language and meaning
• Fact in Fiction
• Suspense
• Mystery
• Art
• Sexism
• Red Hair
• Blood
• Cell phones
• Good intensions win over
greed
• Search for tryth is timeless
• Christianity V/S Paganism
• Sacrifice

18. The African Literature
• Ngugi Wa Thiongo- A Grain of Wheat
• Mau Mau rebellion
• History

19. J.M. Coetzee -Waiting for the
Barbarians
• Social Psychological theme
• Nationalism
• Colonialism
• Hysteria about Barbarians
• Allegorical interpretation
• Allegorical interpretation

20. Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart
• Nature V/S Human
• Father V/S son
• Tradition V/s Change
• Myth
• God
• Language as a sign of
cultural change
• Varying interpretations of
Masculanity
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