Perspectives of Morality: A Critical Study of Anita Desai’s Fire on The Mountain

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Dr. Prem Bahadur Khadka

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In Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain, the tension between knowledge of one's duties and obligations towards others and personal convictions regarding one's responsibility towards oneself leads to moral and ethical dilemmas. The idea of Dharma (ethics) has several dimensions in society and in literary works that fundamentally represent different facets of a society, whether as a collection of moral principles/value systems that we have internalized or as the right ways of living that have impact on human conduct. In this article, an honest attempt has been made to discuss different issues through the characters of two elderly women, such as - What does one do when moral laws interfere with individual liberty and the preservation of happiness?

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