Quest for Identity and Recognition in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner and The Strange Case of Billy Biswas

Abstract

As the word ‘identity’ refers, it means to find out the real state of being identical, absolute sameness and exact likeness. In other words who somebody is and really what he or she is. The modern man has been facing the dilemma of self-realization in this commercial world of materialism. The advanced civilization has bereaved man of love and affinity between man and man. And even the close relationship has been the medium of give and take, the real affinity and human vitality has disappeared from man. In this way the whole world has been squeezed to commodity instead of remaining a sensitive and passion – pro-being.