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| Article Name : | | | SYMBOLS IN ANITA DESAI’S NOVELS - A STUDY | | Author Name : | | | M. Sumathi , R. Gowrishankar | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-6157 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | A symbol is a figure of speech. It has the literal and suggested meanings which are joined together. Retaining its identity it may bring other images also, the same way as a cross or a trishul, besides being metallic objects, stand respectively for Christianity and Hinduism as well. Symbol has concrete referents in this objective world. The function of symbol is to suggest various implications beyond it. A symbol can also be defined as the fusion of physical reality with the inner world. The use of symbols not only enriches a work of art and the depiction of a character but provides the very lifeblood, the soul to it, and compensates for its other deficiencies (Srivastava, 1917 : 137). | | Keywords : | | |
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