Void and Emptiness in V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life and Magic Seeds
Author : M Naveena Rani
Abstract :
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, an accomplished English author with Indian ancestry, was born in Trinidad. His novel Half a Life is about the protagonist Willie Chandran who comes from a family that rejects modernity. He learns about his loneliness and his quest to find a complete identity rather than a partial one. But he feels trapped in the constraints of his existence and is neither satisfied nor fulfilled by it. V.S. Naipaul’s Magic Seeds is the another novel that picks up the story where Half a Life left off. Willie Chandran dismissed and evacuated from his own way of life. He couldn’t get any satisfaction from anywhere. He carried his life with a half existence. He has failed to remember his roots, for that reason he is exceptionally inquisitive about tracking down his lost roots. Eventually he fizzled and his life filled with void and emptiness. Thus this article culminates the points that in the novels of V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life and Magic Seeds, the protagonist Willie Chandran who explores the life of a man from a traditional family and searches meaning for his life. He wants to find a full identity rather than a partial one. But ultimately he fails.
Keywords :
Modernity, identity, constraint, existence, and void
