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Indian Writings in Literature

Notes The final revelation of Ramnik that remains hidden throughout the play is very significant from
the point of view of dramatic presentation. The crises of resentment, anger and hatred is a continuous
process in which no consolation is possible. What Ramnik was doing with Bobby and Javed was
also an expression of anger what had already been done by his father. He survives with a sense of
guilt that he wanted to compensate by providing jobs to Javed and Bobby. It is their shop. It is the
same burnt shop we bought from them, at half its value an we burnt it. Your husband, my father.
And his father. They had burnt it in the name of communal hatred. Because we wanted a shop….
I wanted to tell them that they are not the only ones who have destroyed, I just couldn't. I don't
think. I have the face to tell anyone. It wasn't false pride or arrogance. It was anger.
In Final Solution, Dattani presents a socio-political issue with the vision of a part asks in the chain
of events. Instead of taking the mechanical respond of the characters. He grips the two moil of
emotions associated with them. The action is not imposed from outside but emerges from within
and it is much assented to fill the higher conditions of drama. The integrated vehemence of
passion, provides and additional force to action and the spontaneity of action bring it's nearer to
the real life conditions. Each character in the play struggles at two levels personal conventions and
the commitments towards society. Smita with her liberalism and Aruna with her fundamentalism
frame a suitable concepts to explore the roots of communal violence existing in Indian society.
Aruna is not ready to forget and therefore, Smita is not ready to tolerate her. Ramnik, no doubt is
a complex character but his life represents evolution to self realization and this realization restores
a balance of emotions, an elevation of human pryche where individual consciousness becomes a
part of whole. For a social issue. Dattani seeks a philosophical ground. Man eternally can't escapes
the burden of his own guild. All social and communal differences are generated out of individual
difference and social apathy that has no rational ground.
The use of chorus with mask is suggestive of Dattani's affinity with the native tradition of drama.
The change of mask by the members of chorus besides being a part of stage craft has profound
relevance to declare divided consciousness of mob, in particular and humanity in general. It is
only the mask that changes and behind the masks, there are human characters. It symbolizes that
the awareness of communal disharmony and the passion for discrimination is only an external
mask that covers the essential humanity that is 'One' and sublime. The characters roasted with
hatred and violence appears only in the mask. The generosity of Smita and the realization of
Bobby is the only possible, "Final Solution" to save society from the clouds of disharmony and
violence.
30.2 Plot Construction

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection is a 2004 novel by Michael Chabon. It is a detective story
that in many ways pays homage to the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other writers of
the genre. The story, set in 1944, revolves around an unnamed 89-year-old long-retired detective
(who may or may not be Sherlock Holmes but is always called just "the old man"), now interested
mostly in beekeeping, and his quest to find a missing parrot, the only friend of a mute Jewish boy.
The title of the novella references Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Final Problem," in which
Holmes confronts his greatest enemy, Professor Moriarty, at Reichenbach Falls, and the Final
Solution, the Nazis' plan for the genocide of the Jewish people.
Self-Assessment
1. Fill in the blanks:
(i) Dattani won the prestigious Central Sahitya Akademi Award in ............... .
(ii) Ramnik, the father carries with him the burden of the guilt of his father’s ............... .
(iii) Babban and Javed is in a sense allowed entry after severe resistance from ............... .

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