MYTHOLOGICAL ORNAMENTATION IN RAJA RAO’S KANTHAPURA

ABSTRACT

A writer may use ancient myths, legends and folklore unconsciously in his works. Raja Rao uses ancient mythological motifs deliberately as a technique of narration. In Kanthapura he depicts the epics like Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavatha. He has consciously used myth as a technique in the manner of such modern English writers like as T.S.Eliot, W.B.Yeats and others. The reason he used mythological motifs in his novel because even the illiterate is familiar with Indian mythological stories and they involve in that stories. Indians will give much importance to the mythological characters. He used myths to glorify the present and to impart the novel to the dignity and status of an epic. He made an attempt to show the parallelism between Ramayana and Kanthapura.

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