Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR)

  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 7

Wilders-heaven's my destination: Zeal for eradicating evil

  • Author:
  • Meenakshi
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 40 to 44

Teacher, Education Department

Abstract

Thornton Wilder's is a great name in the field of American Literature he won three Pulitzer prizes for his works. Heaven's My Destination is a different kind of Novel for Wilder. It was his fourth novel and second after the wildly popular The Bridge of San's Luis Ray. It is very episodic Novel. The purpose of the present paper is an in-depth analysis of themes and techniques employed by the Wilder in Heaven's My Destination. It was published in December 1934 in England; the first American Edition followed at the beginning of the New Year. According to author the title comes from “Doggerel verse which children of the Middle West were accustomed to write in their school books. George Brush is the hero in the Novel and Brush holds firmly to Mahatma Gandhi's theory of Ahinsa, the idea that passive resistance to once enemy will conquer him by effecting a change in his social attitudes.

Keywords

Accustomed, Fundamentalist, Satirical, Prevailed, Destination, Traumatized, Amalgamation, Hypocrisy