Redeeming Raju in The Guide: A Phenomenological Study

Abstract

The paper intends to analyze the predicament of Rams the protagonist of R. K Narayan's Die Gunge, from the theoretical perspective of "exult:Mkt I pher.omenology of Martin 11tukgger, supplemented by eelmani Khan from ls-an.nsul SWIM.f early phihosophyss well as Al SOHO: Merleau.Ponty's phenomenological cuplaralltart of human perception It considers Rapis pallid al umatton portrayed in the novel and sm.-Teets his dew-seated guilty consexnee as the characterntic tea= cal what !Iced/eager calls an "authentic' existence. rd In order to make mem sense of RAM situation in a hich he undergoes etuerne sac Retina. it focuses on his past life and how he gradually embraces an 'authentic' existerwe. The study thus eallanattattS that, in the 'authentic" or Anal phase of hot lefc. Rap es more concerned ahoot his 'being' or esisterwe in the community of Alangal than the question of his life