Formalist reading of Moor’s Last Sigh

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the novel, Moor’s Last Sigh, from the formalist perspective. It has been argued that meaning is expressed through the analysis of multi plot form of the novel. The duality of the plot can have multiple layers of meaning. The Formalist understanding would take the double layer character of Mr. Raman Fielding, usually called as Main duck, and his speeches which destroyed the secularity of a diverse country, India. His paradoxical speeches enflamed communal tension first in India’s most populace multi-cultural and multi-religious city Bombay and later spread like fire to the whole country.