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Nature is Never Silent: With Reference to Thrity Umrigar’s Selected Novels N. Bharathy, Dr. P. Kolappadhas Research Scholar, S.T. Hindu College, Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India. Associate Professor, S.T. Hindu College, Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India. --------------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract: Nature is where life begins. Nature is a creator, teacher, healer, therapist, and best friend of every human. Nature is never silent. Every second nature keeps communicating with every one of us in some way or the other. The problem is none of us listen and have no time for it. Mostly nature is used as a romantic by writers and poets. It is only in recent times the nature is dealt as a communicator and healer who silently heals and bring changes in depressed and dejected people, sometimes even without their knowledge. Natures rage and anger are exposed when it destroys, but the motherly nature is always exposed in silence. Thrity is one such author who has treated nature as her silent character, who brings biggest changes in the life of her characters. The aim of this article is to prove the nature speaks all a languages and its ones duty to listen and gain. Article: Nature is one of the most powerful and mysterious forces of the universe that influences all greatly. It is believed philosophically that the universe is composed of nature and soul, which controls all the living, non-living, human, non-human, organic, inorganic and visible, invisible things. Nature rules over the universe like a monarch and no one can escape from the influence of nature. Everyone is influenced by both nature and culture. Nature is the pure and original source of happiness. Everyone forget all their inevitable and depressing and sorrowful conditions in the delightful company of nature. Nature develops sense of beauty and calmness. It fills every ones’ hearts with heavenly pleasure. In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the hearts, in spite of real sorrows. Every bit of alternation in the atmosphere in nature gives happiness. At the same time, nature as a teacher teaches man to accept all the changes in life. Nature motivates man through its every action, and the only thing necessary is every one must give ears to the speech behind the silence. Trees touch the flowers with wind; flowers blush and invite bees; rivers glitters as the moon smiles, stars wink when sun sleeps, wind swings and world relaxes. Every small thing of the nature accompanies to make every ones journey filled with love, peace, harmony and happiness. Nature accepts everyone equally in every color of sadness and happiness. Literature exposes the role of nature in everyday life in the effective ways. Most of the literature in the early period treated nature as romantic element and descriptive source. Later nature became a living a living character through which human identity is constructed. In the world of literature, nature becomes mood setter of the text. Creative artist uses nature to reveal both comic and tragic aspects of human life. Literature treats nature as the source that brings harmony for the mind, strength for the soul and calmness for the body. Thrity has exposed these characteristics of the nature in her novels. She has also exposed how nature is one with everyone’s life and how it is trying to connect and communicate with everyone with its own silence. Thrity has explored how nature has the power to change and make change in everyone’s life. She has also highlighted how nature becomes the source of living, nature becomes the healer, nature becomes the mother and nature becomes the creator of the self. Thrity, in The Story Hour, has used the nature as a therapist who relaxes the stressed mind. Lakshmi who attempts suicide becomes a challenge to doctor Maggie her therapist. As Lakshmi becomes adamant and becomes incommunicative, she
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