Desert as Metaphor and Motif in Benyamin’s Goat Days

Name of Author : Anu Antony

Abstract: Desert literature is a genre of literature which has been skillfully and practically used by many writers to depict the devastated stage of mind and the land through the description of various cultures, dry areas, geology and weather and it persuaded us to explore desert motif in literature in an unthinking ways. But the fact is that, it remains largely unexplored and undeveloped. But the present studies are the results, and it brings into its spectrum, several books and articles that talk about desert directly or indirectly, plainly as well as in the glow and colour of imagination and also is appeared as unpredicted ways of mental realms. This paper, focusing on the desert and its symbolization of the environment for human minds as well as for animals and nature in a broad sense, that celebrated the most decorative and colourful dream landscape and at the same time emphatically, as lifeless place by treating the basic challenges for characters from desert in this terrible setting to survive. In short, desert literature brings a powerful reality in the inexperienced world but still undefined and unfinished.

Keywords : desert literature, mysticism, spiritualism, Metaphor, and psychoanalysis

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