OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE IN THE ‘GHOSTS OF VASU MASTER’

Abstract

The present article delineates the thoughts of death in the novel The Ghosts of Vasu Master. The novel has temporary upsurge of philosophy which questions the perennial affect of death on the living. The article tries to demonstrate how Githa Hariharan portrays death using scary metaphors of Crow and Mouse. The Crow and its incessant cawing might draw attention of the reader towards death. On the other hand, the Mouse is understood to be an embodiment of the main character Vasu. The constant battle between Vasu (Mouse) and Death (Crow) is explicated in the article using the literary device objective correlative.