Fate in Humanimal

Fate in Humanimal

  • Submitted By: rich90ma
  • Date Submitted: 12/08/2009 8:46 PM
  • Category: English
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Many individuals have their own views and opinions about what fate is. The question has been asked so many times. It can take a lifetime to just answer that question or it may never be answered at all. This idea of fate has been baffling people for many years. There is no sure answer to what fate really is from all these years. There are so many theories and beliefs about fate. This concept of fate appears in novel called Humanimal written by Bhanu Kapil. The two wolf girls were brought into misery when their ways of living have changed drastically. Fate is very hard to explain and people don’t know whether to believe if it’s real or not. However, many people believe that fate can be changed and humans are in charge of their own or other peoples’ destiny. There are many ways or methods in changing someone’s fate, even if it’s hard to find one; the changes can actually harm someone’s life.
The change the girls were brought into gave them a horrifying and treacherous road. It was dangerous for the girls because of the different ways of living. The reverend had taken the girls to be part of his orphanage and try to raise them as regular human girls. It was very different the girls have ever experience. As Kapil reveal in her book, “Kamala slips over the garden wall with her sister and runs, on all fours, toward the complex horizon between Midnapure and its surrounding belt of sal. The Humanimal mode is one of pure anxiety attached to the presence of the body. Two panicked children strain against the gelatin envelope of the township, producing, through distension, a frightening shape. The animals see an opaque, milky membrane bulging with life and retreat, as you would, to the inner world.” The quote conveys the panic and fear the girls have possesses when the reverend gets near them. They never interacted with humans after the wolves raised these kids. It’s was very hard for them to adapt and understand what the Reverend was trying to do. Therefore, the wolf girls...

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