A Psychological Transformation in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World

Abstract

This paper attempts to express the in-depth analysis of the psychological transformation of immigrant women characters in the novel of Bharati Mukherjee. As of late, the immigrants have hence caught among push and pull of differentiating societies, experiencing sentiments of estrangement, despondency, and wistfulness in the new terrains which came to be known as 'Diaspora'. Bharati Mukherjee is a notable author having a place with the Indian Diaspora who made her contemporaries desirous in a relatively short inventive range. Mukherjee manages sociocultural encounters of characters in India and America. The Holder of the World is the narrative of a migrant, Hannah Easton from America who came to India in the seventeenth century and assimilated the Indian culture. This tale swings between two universes, the Puritan American and the Mughal India. Here, the writer examines how the heroine, Hannah Easton changes mentally when she swings between the two. Hannah attempts to accommodate the two societies and that has become the quintessence of the novel. This epic represents irritation. The mind of a young lady Hannah, who is a casualty, of estrangement, and male strength can evolve as a champion in facing all the oddities of life. The hero Hannah can advance as a boss not withstanding all chances because of the sheer quality of her solidness and resolution. The physical, mental and passionate difficulties that Hannah goes through change her totally and she reproduces herself into an alternate character.