A Few Sketches on Environments Imprinted on the Novels of Ajneya

Abstract

It is a well-known fact that the very environment which surrounds us bears a great impact on our body, mind and soul. Anybody can understand what will be the feelings of a person when he is surrounded by cold and heavy air in a situation that he comes in contact. In the same way the feelings of a person in a desert are well understood by anyone without having any question to the person concerned. This is why the environment portrayed by a novelist for the plotline of a novel is so important that it must suit to the characters in question, it must help the smooth progress of the plotline as well as it must pierce in to the heart of a reader, so that the reader can visualize the very movement of the protagonist at every moment of time. To air out our thoughts in this regard it might be the best way to cite the example of the environment that had been created by the great novelist Ernest Hemingway in his novel The Old Man and The Sea. He had allowed the old man to go to the sea again and again for a long period but he never allowed the old man to have success at his hand. In fact he had portrayed an environment of pessimism for the readers by not allowing the old man to have a success at his hand despite of his all efforts. In order to add more pessimism in the mind of a common reader he had given a nick name to the old man by Shalao. The very environment created by the author made every reader believe that the old man will never be successful at any cost, whatever the intensity of his effort may be. This is how one can imagine the influence of the environment on the mindset and belief of a common reader.