Art and Ethics in the novels of Vikas Sharma: A Study of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Volume 3 Issue 1 Winter Edition 2023

Abstract

Aim: After the success of his eight novels, Vikas Sharma wrote Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow to assert his positive attitude to life. Suicide, pessimism, dormant nature, irrationality, imprudence, indecency etc. have no place in his scheme of things. As an awakened citizen and university professor, he meets several kinds of people in his daily life and paints those who have stayed in his memory for particular deed or feeling or passion. In this research paper the psychology of the characters of this novel has been minutely analyzed. Secondly, ethical values as asserted by the author, have been illustrated and elaborated as they have stood the tests of time and place. Like Buddha, Vikas Sharma admits that Time changes and then life changes with it. Every 'tomorrow' may not be gay and yet hope is the inspiration to work hard and face the uncertain oddities.Methodology and Approach: The study is based on the novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Prof: Vikas Sharma as a primary text. The novel employes optimistic approach towards life.Outcome: The novel depicts complexities of the contemporary society that have become alarming and challenging for each and every individual. The novel carefully paints different shades and colors of human feeling. The artist answers the question- How to live? and he never shows any indifference to ethical values.Conclusion and Suggestions: Thus, Vikas Sharma has written purposeful novels with due emphasis upon art of narration, technique of plot construction, with significance to round characters etc. Secondly, he introduces several shades of realism in his novels and rarely mixes the natural and supernatural characters. In the novel Hope Against Hope also he has added due significance to positive approach to life. Same is the case with Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow as this title makes us think about future, future that turns into present and the present that gets naturally converted into past.