Symbolic Archetypes found in Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy

Authors

  • Dr Bhooma Chella Subramanian Assistant Professor in English, Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, Chennai

Keywords:

Myth, Symbols, Schemas, Archetypes, Blue throat

Abstract

This Paper aims to analyse the dynamic schemas that accelerates Amish Tripathi’s narrative technique in Shiva Trilogy. Shiva trilogy is the retelling of Shiva Purana. Trilogy is loaded with enough archetypes, symbols and schemas which are the attributes of myth narratives. Symbols such as river Saraswathi, blue throat, third eye are widely used by Tripathi in the narrative. This study will confine itself to analysing the schemas that are present in the story using the critical approach semiotic literary analysis. River Saraswathi stands as a symbol of knowledge and how it is pushed to the brink of extinction and somras which is the immortal drink turns detrimental to entire humanity, blue throat that indicates arrival of the saviour constitutes the crux of the narrative. Symbols and their semiotic indicators with reference to literature will be studied in myth theoretical perspective.

Author Biography

Dr Bhooma Chella Subramanian, Assistant Professor in English, Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, Chennai

Dr Bhooma Chella Subramanian is an Assistant Professor at Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, specialising in English language Teaching and CLT. She is pursuing her second PhD in archetypal criticism. She has completed a funded project on the topic “Developing learning aptitude among undergraduates.”

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Published

01.04.2022

How to Cite

Subramanian, B. C. (2022). Symbolic Archetypes found in Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 13(2), 25–29. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/JTREL130205

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2022): April

Section

Research Articles

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