"Tokyo Cancelled" by Rana Dasgupta. the Concept of Desire in the story "The Doll"
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Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, University of Stuttgart (Anglistik - Neuere Englische Literatur), course: G2: Current Indian Fiction, language: English, abstract: Desire is by definition the absence or the lack of something. Whatever this lack consists of is the object of desire. The story "The Doll" deals with different concepts of desire and each concept is attached to one or more different objects of desire. This essay will examine the different concepts of desire and their functioning as driving forces behind the caracters' actions. Identifying the longing of the characters will help to analyse their behavioural patterns more precisely...