A Comparative Perspective to the Mythological Concept of Escape from Time: An Archetypal Study
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Time, the concept had ever been a matter of baffling obscurity to the humankind. Measuring of time may be an extension of man‟s quest to define life itself, an inborn crave to count the uncountable, and to define the indefinite. No two critics may agree with the meaning of such eely and elusive philosophic or theological queries, when they are entangled within the scope of words with its grammatical gymnastics. The article, through a comparative approach, envisages how a worldview with an unpinned clock handles is presented in literature and how, and why, in many a literary works, the concept of time is destructed and deconstructed drastically. Writers, like O‟Neill, Faulkner, Thoreau, Margaret Attwood and Kafka, from different continents, and of different time periods, in their classical works move towards the primeval time sense or towards the eternal bliss of timelessness. The scope of this article includes how and why the works like The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner),The Emperor Jones (O‟Neill), Walden (Thoreau), The Trial (Kafka) or Oryx and Crake (Margaret Attwood), embrace a different time structure and the deeper underlying archetypal patterns beneath the surface layers of these literary works are laid bare with an archetypal perspective.
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Suja Joseph
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