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| Article Name : | | | LIVING WITH A DEAD ‘ALBATROSS'': THE DUAL SELF IN THE APPRENTICE | | Author Name : | | | S K Mishra and Kapil Kumar Gupta | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-6604 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | The duality of self in The Apprentice is like living with the lost paradise of one’s being which one lost in order to pursue materialistic success and survive in the hard and degenerative realities of post-independent India in which it appeared as if one was “sailing about in a confused society without norms, without direction, without even, perhaps, a purpose”. In spite of all his prosperity and successful career, Ratan lives in perpetual agony of having lost his soul. His dual self is an agonising state in which he has landed himself by having “pawned” his soul for his “carrier” and success in a “petrified and frozen” world, governed by “. . . phoney people who knew only how to make speeches, be cruel, and feather their nests, people who made a mess of things, then went off without knowing how to clean it up”. | | Keywords : | | - Dual Self, Lost Soul,Success,Career,Politician,Deals,Pawn,Paradise,
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