The Personal Virtue Revealed in Cho Dharman's Novel ‘Thirteenth Mayavadi (13th Mayavadi)

Abstract

One's personal morals can be regarded as inner purity, purity of words, purity of deeds, etc. The view that all this is found only in the educated and the dominant castes, and that they are the best in moral aspects, is still common sense. People who have been oppressed by caste oppression and who suffer in poverty on a daily basis and are neglected in terms of economy, occupation, etc., are considered to be deviant from morality. Cho Dharman, who is capable of choosing the taste from the ordinary events of life and making it into stories, breaks this statement with the character "Aryan" in his novel "13^th Mayavadi". The underprivileged people, who are uneducated and trapped in the clutches of poverty, have dominated the adherence to moral values. This article explores the individual morality of Cho Dharman's 13^th Mayavadi novel through the character "Aryan", one of the lower classes, in this novel, with the idea that even if their profession is degrading, they are afraid of the morals they follow under any circumstances and are compassionate and honest.