Homogeneous of Family Dynamics and Heterogeneous of Cultural Values in Upamanyu Chatterjee’s The Last Burden and Way to Go

Vol-4 | Issue-02 | February 2019 | Published Online: 20 February 2019    PDF ( 290 KB )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2585843
Author(s)
B. Viswanathan 1

1Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Excellence in Law, The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Perungudi, Chennai – 600 113, Tamil Nadu (India)

Abstract

This paper examines the essential ethos of classic values. There are many human values such as cultural, moral, spiritual and ethical values which are following by the Indians. It has been practicing from the traditional sanctity to the modern vicinity of life. The focus is the analysis of homogeneous of family dynamics and heterogeneous of cultural values in Upamanyu Chatterjee‘s The Last Burden and Way to Go. There is humongous information which can be excavated in Chatterjee‘s novels. He presents the myriad interconnection of family and culture in India. His novels seem to celebrate the cultural values which are attached to the Joint family system. Chatterjee portrays that the love of the family and culture is never ending through the character of dying Urmila and missing Shyamanand. His novels teach a lesson to other writers in the world how family as the major theme is treated in the literary works by the Indian writers. At the same time, his novels deal with the representation of Indian culture. The main objective of the paper is to delineate the multidimensional perspectives of family and cultural values in India. It describes theoretically and empirically through the narration of Jamun‘s family.

Keywords
Homogeneous, Heterogeneous, Family, Culture, Tripartite-Generation
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