A Walk through the Myth and Psychology of Mr Biswas in V.S.Naipaul's 'A House for Mr Biswas'

In general, the concept of displacement, alienation, homelessness and the struggle for loss of native-nesshas been the dominant subject linked with the novel ‘A House for Mr. Biswas’. To the identity crisis of Mr.Biswas, Bruce king talk of the economic means to become independent individual. However, the distinctionbetween the western and the eastern concept of independent need to be sorted out despite being Americansettler though Indian in origin. Mr. Biswas quest for a house reflects his search for belonging andindependence; a desire to shift from the status of visitor into a dweller. This internal struggle act as abonding and disintegrating factor in the novel. As he sank deep into his unconscious task of rediscoveringhis own land on his own amidst the heighten pathos, poignance (state of being) of the identity serve as anhumorous effect of the whole plot. To this amusing persona of Mr. Biswas Anthony Burgess comment onthe novel as “work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion”. Mr. Biswassearch for identity is his dignity in itself that give a structure to the chaos. Though V.S. Naipaul is knownfor his pessimistic element in his work he called for authentic existence and the exercise of freedom toreestablish oneself in the worst of predicament. N. Sharada Iyer viewed that Mr. Biswas revolt is againstany value system which denies the intrinsic importance of man, denies freedom and dignity at once