Question

Critically analyse the passions and compulsions that forced Billy to leave
the civilized society and join the tribal world.

(long answer)​

Answer 1

Hari Mohan Prasad in his book Arun Joshi remarks –

“Crisis of self and a quest for fulfillment, the fin mot of The

Foreigner, continues to be the central experience of Arun Joshi

next novel The Strange Case of Billy Biswas. The deeper

significance of the work can properly be discerned if it is

explicated both as an indictment of the phony, hot – shot, sordid

modern culture and as an embodiment of Purush – Prakriti

unification, particularly in the context of Sankhya philosophy. The

novel articulates, almost with the intensity of Lawrence and Conrad

human craving for the primordial, the ellan vital of our

anthropological heritage. In the retreat of Mr. Billy Biswas from

the modern waste land of Delhi to the ancient Garden of Eden in

Maikala Jungle, from the smothering, clutch of Meena to the

primeval possessiveness of Bilasia, Purush meets Prakriti serving

the two ends of evolution, outlined by Sankhya, enjoyment (bhogo)

and liberation or Sansara as well as Kaivalvya.”

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