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Chetan Bhagat As A Social Character Analysis

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The novel is essentially a social form. It explores the condition of the human beings through the mental struggle and body language, quite before they get into action. It is like focusing on the stalking of the lion rather than pouncing upon the prey.4 (Singh: 2004, 2)

Bhagat strives to describe the mental stirrings of his human resources. His characters read the words and foresee the action. Therefore, novel is a wide-ranging literary form. It is a derivative of the Italian word ‘novella’, which means to portray a short, compact and broadly realistic story. It deals with a human character in a social situation, man as a social being. It places more weight on character, especially one attractive character, than on plot. Anita Singh highlights …show more content…

He has endowed the genre with healthy comedy and optimistic approach to life. Like R. K. Narayan, he does not create Malgudi village and pick up the characters from here. He chooses the human resources from the real-life metropolis. His novels go around the lives of the youth. He exactly portrays their real-life pictures and entertains all class and cadre of people. Bhagat writes about the youth and especially for the youth. However, the people of all age groups love to read him. Everyone experiences as if Bhagat writes to him. He writes so simple that everyone likes him. It is reported that Bhagat’s Five Point Someone is set for some tribal children. Perhaps, this has happened first time in the history that an Indian English novel referred to the youth has been given to teach English, the tribal children of the primary school. First time, Bhagat has exposed the rubbish coated with pseudo wisdom-cream of the top institute of the country, IIT. Unlike Tagore and his contemporaries, Bhagat is in support of realism in art. His artistic truth lies within sensory insight. It guides his readers to achieve self-enlightenment. Unlike Tagore, Bhagat wants not only man but also truth in literature. Character is the soul of Bhagat’s novels. The plot that is the story is the second important element. So, character is prior to the plot. His novel Five Point Someone was published in 2004 and is still on peak selling list. It got him the Society Young Achiever’s Award in the year 2004 and the Publisher’s Recognition Award in the year

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