Binary of Major Character and Minor Character in Amruta Patil’s Graphic Novel Sauptik: A Deconstructive Study

A novel is an organic whole and even its smaller components have significant roles to play. The bigger body components in a human are the head, the heart, the arms, and the legs. Minor parts include the fingers, ears, and eyes. A man who is blind, deaf, or without fingers may live a long life, but he will undoubtedly be inferior to a person with a well-built body. The same is true of a novel. It cannot gain a great readership if the smaller characters are missing or are not properly recognised. Minor characters are often not the main focus of a literary work, but they are crucial to a story’s advancement since they make the narrative move. By spurring the primary characters’ behaviour, they can influence how the story of the novel develops. They occasionally contribute to the novel’s central conflict, but they also frequently aid in its conclusion. There are a number of supporting characters who contribute to the development of Amruta Patil’s Sauptik. This paper demonstrates the significance of all secondary characters in this work, in addition to the main ones, for the unfolding of the story. For meeting this purpose this paper employs Jacques Derrida’s concept of deconstruction to deconstruct the binary of major characters and minor characters.