NATURAL ELEMENTS AS SYMBOLS IN PATRICK WHITE’S THE EYE OF THE STORM

Abstract

Since when the Literature came into the existence, the words and the letters of writers started blooming with signs, symbols, images and pictures, so can be termed as symbolism. The practice of such a great literary weapon even more enriched the art of writing any genre of literature. The words beyond their original meaning or a text beyond the text and even more than its literal meaning can be termed as Symbolism. It destabilizes the hidden or underlying meaning of a narrative, and reverses its sequential flow and reveals unknown to the known world. A wrier speaks in his voice with the words or sometimes without the words with help of signs and symbols associated with images and pictures. This current paper will attempt a short detailed critical analysis of the thematic and stylistic concerns of the use of natural elements as symbols in the certain novel of Patrick white entitled The Eye of the Storm. While focusing on ‘The Eye of the Storm’, the paper shall also examine characters and their practicality in terms of symbolism as to how and what White wants to suggest through his characters and the theme of the novel.