The Novel named mystic masseur by V.S Naipual.pptx

This ppt gives a brief description of the novel alongwith it's importance the characters the utility of the plot.
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1. CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF MYSTIC MASSEUR

2. AUTHOR :- The Mystic Masseur is a comic novel by V.S. Naipaul it is set in colonial Trinidad and was published in london in 1957. He belong to U.K. TITLE:- Mystic Masseur literal meaning is ‘mystic’ mean a person who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truth that are beyond the intellect and ‘masseur’ meaning is A Person who proceed m e ssage professionally. DETAIL:- The Mystic Masseur follow the life. Ganesh Ramsumair, a Trinidadian of Indian heritage. As a young man, Ganesh attends, a training college for teachers and after graduation, he begins working as a primary school teacher in port of Spain, Trinidad’s capital . However, he quickly loses interest in this profession and return to his hometown of fourways, where he learns that his father has

3. Just died Ganesh plans to be either writer for a professional masseur, and he befriends a lo c al shop owner named Ramlogan. Ramlogan has a 16 years old daughter named leela and leela and Ganesh soon marry . * Ganesh and Leela go to live in the small rural village of Fuente Grove, and he befriends a shop owner there named Beharry. Beharry encourages Ganesh to read and become a writer and Ganesh order several hundred books by mail to comprise his personal library. He reads the books and makes notes. But Leela becomes frustrated by the lack of progress. Ganesh makes with actually writing. She leaves Ganesh and returns to Fourways to live with her father again. Ganesh spends the next five weeks writing an educational text about Hinduism and when he finishes it, he hires a print shop to make copies of his book. He brings the book to leela and Ramlogan and they are ecstatic that he has written a book. However, Ramlogan becomes furious when he sees that the book is dedicated to Beharry rathen than Leela or himself.

4. SUMMARY 1- Leela returned to Ganesh but Ganesh’s book does not sell well. 2 - He decides to become a Mystic and Religious hea l er. 3 - He saved a man from black cloud by performing a ritual. 4 - Becomes a very successful mystic but soon discovered that the five local taxies are over charging passenger to come to his home. 5 – He also discover that the taxies are owned by Ramlogan . 6 – He goes to Ramlogan and asked to buy two taxies from him.

5. 7 – Ramlogan agrees to sell the taxies to Ganesh. 8 – The lift off begins into stardom. Su ddenly Ganesh is a national celebrity. 9 – Finally, the Trinidad Hindu association are so pleased by his wisdom and elect him as President of the religious denomination in place of Narayan. 10 – Learns that politics binds one’s ability to do good for others and he publishes a memoir that makes him lots and lots of money. It is called “The years of Guilt”.

6. Work Organization- Naipaul. It is set in colonial Trinidad and was published in London in 1957. The novel is about a frustrated writer of Indian descent who rises from an impoverished background to become a successful politician on the back of his dubious talent as a mystic m as seur- a masseur who can cure illnesses. The mystic masseur follows the life of Ganesh Ramsumair a Trinidadian of Indian heritage.

7. Author Style- The book is technically narrated by the unnamed narrator, who is a specific person and who is not actually present for the vast majority of the novel. Thus, the narrator technically function in a manner similar to that of a limited third –person narrator. It is not clear how the narrator knows all the details that he recounts in the novel. But subsquent to the novel epilogue, Ganesh tells the narrator his story, and the narrator conveys these personal details to the reader. In that case, the narration could actually be viewed as a type of distorted first person mode that is filtered through the perspective of the narrator.

8. Effectiveness of the Mystic Masseur - It is an allegory of the history of the Hindu community living in Trinidad. - Novel portrays an Indian community trying to adjust itself with the alien culture. - Naipaul depicts the society in which individual is forced to use subterfuge and ma s k for his survival. -Novel highlights displaced and medicore individuals in pursuit of recognition and success.

9. CONCLUSION - Naipaul’s main aim is to bring out the irony in the lives of the fast Indian migrants. -Novel presents the picture of the West Indian society in crisis and challenges in a more systematic way. - Novelist seems to suggest that a man needs to be practical and clever enough to ensure growth in his career. - The struggle of the self and the society that are best reflected i n the context of colonialism.

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