Riya Kanojia

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. The novel Mrs. Dalloway is an exceptionally thought-provoking novel by Virginia Woolf. It's an example of Steam of consciousness storytelling, bringing light to the flashbacks from the memories of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith. Woolf simultaneously portrayed two main narrative lines involving two different characters. While Clarissa recounts her charmed youth at Bourton, Septimus keeps recalling the hazardous effects after the First World War that led to the death of her friend Evans. Woolf through both these narrative lines tries to demonstrate the lives of all those people that got affected by the First World War and are not able to come to terms with the life they are living right now. A continuous longing for the happy days kept intruding Clarissa's mind, and Septimus was deeply intrigued by the horrifying incidents of the First World War.

There's no reason for living ( or for suicide) Life goes on floating like an opera as long as it could go on. Barthes portrays a nihilistic world after the post-World War. Life has become meaningless and the sense of living has been eradicated after an individual has experienced numerous horrifying incidents of World War. Barthes through the character of Todd shows the lives of all those people that had become senseless and they just want to die that shows their psychic situation. Even though Todd Andrews wants to die and even plans for his suicide; he didn't die which indicates that life goes on and we can't do anything but continue to live.

"But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of a dreamer." The Bluest Eye is a magnificent and heart-wrenching novel by African-American novelist Toni Morrison. In the novel, she deliberately tried to show how the white beauty standards have evolved so much that it deeply affects the lives of black people even today. Through Pecola Breedlove, Morrison tries to show the negative impact racism can have on one's self-confidence and worth. The novel Bluest Eyes brings forth a unique and untold point of view in American historical fiction. She explicitly writes stories that go against the "American mainstream ideology" by focusing on the realities of African-American life at that time. All in all, Toni Morrison in her novel The Bluest Eye flourishes the lives of all those people, stories of all those people which were left otherwise unsaid and unheard.