Research article

CELESTE NG’S LYDIA: A BIOPHILIC PERSONAGE IN EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU

1A. Asha Manorah Jenefer and 2Dr. T. Sridevi

Online First: November 11, 2022


Over millennia, people have moved across social, cultural, and geographic boundaries in quest of better opportunities. In prehistoric periods, communities wandered about in quest of a favorable natural environment; subsequently, it is established in agriculture in which the communities travelled around in search of greater possibilities and shelter. Having a diverse exposure in diaspora Celest Ng, who has consistently worked to highlight the multicultural sensibility of her characters via the use of a variety of elements including culture, mythology, and environment as a source of solace. Ng has mapped out the relationship between the émigré heroine Lydia and the ordinary problems that other immigrants face in her acclaimed literary work Everything I Never Told. Through the use of nature and environment, which serve as the fundamental characteristics of all living and non-living survivals in this domain, Lydia serves as a connecting connection between diasporas and the motherland. It establishes the framework for social civilization's expansion and advancement. Since flora and wildlife are fundamental to human survival, they have a wide range of effects on people everywhere. Having taken the theories of environmental psychologist Tim Kasser and the ideas of eco-critics such as Emerson and Thoreau, the study aims to analyze "Everything I Never Told You”, as a key to vent the emotions of Diaspora leading to the commit suicide

Keywords

Diaspora, Lake, Nature, Psychology, Water