Loneliness, Interlinked Relationship and Post Modernism in Vikram Seths The Golden Gate

Name of Author : Subodh Kumar Ray, Dr. Akhileshwar Kumar Singh

Abstract: Vikram Seth is one of the most fascinating and multi-talented writers in Indian English Literary world. Seth plays the crucial role for the development of Indian English literature, not only as a novelist but also as a poet biographer, memoires and travelogue writer. He ornamented his novels by using different styles like sonnet, verse, epic and music. He illustrates different social realism and cultural landscape. The Golden Gate is composed entirely in rhyming tetrameter sonnet. This poetic element helps Seth to compose a message of the novel and create an atmosphere of loneliness, love and survival, solitude and post modernism. Seths characters of The Golden Gate like John, Janet, Liz and Ed create an atmosphere of loneliness and frustration. All characters live in searching for suitable love. The main character of this novel is John Brown, a computer engineer, has no family to look after. After college hours Johns life becomes dull and prosaic. He prioritises his professional life over his friendship. He always tries to read to get rid of his pain of loneliness. Catharsis and enlightenment can be seen at the end of this novel. All central characters live in interlinked relationship: John Brown and his girl friend Liz, Browns friend and later Lizs husband Phil, Lizs brother Ed Dorati and browns girl friend Janet Hayakawa. Two female (Janet and Liz) and three male (John, Phil and Ed) knew each other in the college at University of California, Berkeley. Seth has created every effort to post modernism after 1980s by portraying an intimate California life style. Modern American women have always shown great enterprise and skill in surviving in the male dominated and Irony. The Golden Gate gains a post modernistic trend through its form of tour de force.

Keywords : Sonnet, Loneliness, Love and Survival, Post modernism, Interlinked Relationship

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