Cultural Identity Crisis in the Novel Love's Not Time's Fool by Vikas Sharma

Identity has been a buzzing word in the field of cultural values. Everyone talks about
Morality and Scholastic in real life. We don't follow what we preach. We all are aware
of our social and cultural responsibilities. We tend to grab the opportunities and show
how pure we are in the context of others. The world is full of materialistic things and
desires. We have become some sort of inanimate things like robots we work with,
and we have lost our emotions. As we see in The Waste Land by T.S Eliot, even
cousin Marie became the victim of hunger and lost her identity. The characters of
Richa Pandit and Abhilash have shown the hidden voices of society in the form of
instincts. How does a married woman lure a young protagonist into losing his moral
and cultural identity? The characters resemble it as a daily activity or a job to be in
bed with someone. This reminds us of the clerk in The Wasteland. After the meal, her
lover performs the activity with her because she is bored. People earn money, and
they use it to fulfill their hidden desires of themselves. These desires they cannot
elucidate in front of people, but they always try to break the society's laws. This
becomes the talk of the town. This Novel talks about How educated women use males
for quid pro quo. A man of words who had certain dreams to come true became a
puppet in the hands of society in the form of a successful woman. An evil society can
force you to follow some illicit relationship. Sexuality is a biological and emotional
process, but in the real world, it has become emotionless. This shows how
emotionless we became and how our limbs are automatic. The Adam and Eve myths
might be transformed because now all are sinners. This paper explores unspoken
desires and their cultural impacts on traditional backgrounds. It also tries to curb the
illicit emotions that can be a gateway to our downfall in our eyes.