Write a critical note on the plot construction in Untouchable
The plot of Untouchable, though linear in form and simple in content, is perhaps one of the best experimental plots in the elementary stage of Indian novel in English. The use of the narrative techniques of stream-of-consciousness, flashback, reverie, interior monologue etc. and confining the action to less than twenty-four hours in the life of its hero Bakha makes it one of the most well-structured plots. The single-purpose theme of untouchability, being defined and analysed from different viewpoints and in all its complexity, provides it the much-desired coherence as is clear from Anand’s observation in his essay on On the Genesis of Untouchable.
hd wanted to create the plot, characters and milieu of his novels on the sound base of ‘social, political, cultural, realities.’ Being the son of a clerk in the army, he had the knowledge of lived experiences of life in the British Indian cantonments and he creates a strong segment in Bakha’s life in his attempts to copy the Tommies by acquiring the sola topi, trousers, blanket and the hockey stick. The novelist had also gone through the ‘misery, pain and humiliation in the lives of the outcastes as the loyalty of their family to the Ismaili Aga Khan faith made them a sort of ‘untouchables’ in the eyes of most of the orthodox Hindu brotherhood. Therefore, the pity for Bakha is aroused not so much from ‘sympathy’ but from ‘understanding’ of the degradation of outcastes, from sharing their pains, humiliations and inner aspirations. By maintaining ‘distance’ and ‘objectivity’, he was able to make his pass-ion turn into compassion.
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