Morality and Virtues of the Individuals in the Realistic short stories of the Twentieth Century

Abstract

Real stories always contain humanistic elements and it is appealing to the laymen. Realism as a literary approach and the Short story as a literary form, are the gifts of the 19^th Century. Realistic stories are based on the life of ordinary people who are facing numerous problems. These stories are about the people who have lost their unity thanks to the displacement from their family roots. Contradictions manifest when they oppose the social customs and cultural sentiments of the majority. They act according to their nature and they never bow down to normal practices. Their human action, truth, degeneration and inner contradictions are well portryed in these stories. VaVeSu Iyer's " Kulathankarai Arasamaram" is a short story that highlights the repercussions of the bankruptcy of the British banking company which shattered the dreams of countless middle class people into pieces which paved the way for the destruction of family life. In Puthumaippithan's "Ponnagaram," the plight of 1930s Chennai slumdwellers who were living in want, with their own cultural ethics which were contrary to others'. Indra Parthasarathy's text " Kadhal Poar Vyapaaram" depicts the decaying culture of the upper hierarchy of the elite in Delhi in the 1980s during the initial stage of Globalization. The text also implies that not all people yielded to such temptations.