Themes of Life, Death and Loneliness as Identity in Monica Ali's Brick Lane

Elnegm, Alaa

doi:10.21608/ajsr.2021.236294

Themes of Life, Death and Loneliness as Identity in Monica Ali's Brick Lane

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Alaa Elnegm

University of Kufa - Iraq

10.21608/ajsr.2021.236294

Abstract

by which writing by the colonizing society mutilates the experience and real factors and engraves the mediocrity, of the colonized individuals' and ́literature by colonized people groups which endeavors to express their character and recover their past despite that past's inescapable otherness. The subjects of personality and the past are exceptionally compelling to this paper as they convey the plot of Brick Lane. This paper investigates the themes of life, death, and loneliness as identity in this novel. However, it explores how the writer significantly uses the exact ideas to express his behavior throughout each ..character in different ways.
Brick Lane is a postcolonial fill in as the hero is a Bangladeshi who moves to England, and parts of the novel are portrayals from Bangladesh. Moreover, numerous contemplations and recollections manage the nation that a portion of the characters wish to return to. The pioneer history is depicted through the characters, fundamentally Nazneen's Bangladeshi spouse Chanu who has lived in Britain for a long time. Chanu constantly talks about the nation where he was conceived and draws correlations among Bangladesh and Britain. To him, it is essential to tell his girls and spouse that their nation is the one that has profited England and not the opposite way around. In the long run, it might appear as though he himself is the one he is attempting to persuade.

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