A Bolt from the Blue in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro, receiver of the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 2017, isa Nagasaki-born writer. He developed his writing career in the year 1982 and many of his novels have historical contextual ideas. The literary attributes of Ishiguro's works are acknowledged for his uniqueness in English writing and method. It blends the sequence of the plot, to the extraordinary subjectivity of the portrayal, and to the historical sensitivity which truly interweaves with the depictions.The nostalgic and evocative characteristics of his writings make him the master of prodigious artistic works. The renowned novel of Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day , which bagged him the prestigious Booker Prize in the year 1989, portrays the psychological niceties associated with the protagonist of the novel, Stevens. Stevens is a butler who works under an aristocrat whom he revered the most at the beginning but later he was betrayed by knowing the facts of his lordship being associated with the Nazis during the World War. Through the Trauma Theory this paper anatomizes the traumatic experiences of the mind, ramifications of thoughts and also the restrained dealings of human nature.This theory investigates the effect of trauma in writings and society, by examining its mental, logical, and social criticalness.The novel relocates the inherent presence of the theory throughplenteous incidents and contemplates on Stevens’ thoughts.


Introduction
The Remains of the Day is Ishiguro's third novel and later was pictured into a successful movie in 1993. It is a narrative novel in which the story line is recounted by the protagonist Stevens an English butler who performed dedicated service to his two employers, Lord Darlington and Mr.Farraday. The fiction covers the constant flow of thoughts, memories and testimonies of his life. He is a person who has a slavish sense of duty and an extreme loyalty that leads to abstinence and hence results in the trauma of losing his dignity.
At the end he finds the inflated definition for his tragic emotions as he has lost his human identityor rather dignity. This work is filled with the character's narration and his inner thought processes which link the present views of life and the past time; hence it weaves back and forth. The author'snarrative technique is similar to that of a pendulum that swings between dignity and duty. Stevens duty as a butler goes on well as he serves Lord Darlington, the American gentleman without disturbing his plans and also carries out necessary tasks. The novel portrays the dedication of Stevens proving that his devotion to his SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH e-ISSN: 2582-3574 p-ISSN: 2582-4406 VOL. 8, ISSUE 11, NOVEMBER 2020 www.ijellh.com 98 employer amounts to 'destructive obedience'. Holmes emphasizes, "The destructive behavior is a collective damage when people reacts with a general ideal that involves the denial of their own emotional needs". (Web. 14) It is the outlook of a human being and not his deeds that unravels the mystery of his life. The tendency to interpret the interior processes of the human mind is an unavoidable meddling course which Kazuo Ishiguro in his novel shows his best as he discusses on this.
The life journey of Stevens in this story appears to be very expectant with number of insinuations and hence it hits its stride. His long term professional service to his master Lord Darlington and the devotion to him bring numerous instances of sensational satisfaction.
Lord Darlington is a gentleman whose political naivety and ethical weakness cause him to be disparaging of his own motherland. Stevens dedicated service to his master makes him grow with different thoughts which draw attention to the repressed trauma. It becomes a denial of his thoughts and desires.The spellbinding events that happen in the life story of the butler and the oscillation between his past and present life incidents throws light to the ramifications of psychoanalysis in the novel at its maximum level.
Most of the novels written by Kazuo Ishiguro reflect the themes of ethnicity, culture and the lifestyle of the Japanese. The same can be proved in his prominent novels such as A The perception of this paper is to understand the significance of the character Stevens  This statement gives a view that how miserably he has failed in his life. Stevens sees that in giving his master the undoubted trust, he has damned himself to a fate worse than that of his master for in leading a merely explicit existence; he has become that pawn to pawn.
Stevens puts effort to maintain the professional dignity and it results in a curbed subjective distress. The novel thus reflects the emotional and painful recollections of a dignified man who has an ill priced possession for a man who has an enthusiastic professional errand. His tragedy is that his pursuit of greatness as a butler subsumes everything: his emotions, his critical faculties and his judgment.

Summing Up
Trauma Theory, as a holistic approach to discourse processing, offers an overarching framework that is particularly useful in investigating the emotional significance of the interaction between the reader and the text during literary discourse.The theory records the feeling and literary ideas and consolidates the traumatic experiences and considers the vicissitude of the numerous interpretations. Stevens' characterization throughout the novel is insightful and nostalgic.Stevens at long last separates during the night when he is perched on the dock, coming to finally the acknowledgment that he has betrayed himself all through his life. There are both literal and metaphorical deaths: bereavement of friends and family, and allegorical euthanasia of dreams and beliefs. In his deception he accepts that the past is a magnificent thing yet as the story advances and he slowly analyseshimself and understands that his life is a total camouflage. His life makes it clear for the readers to understand the significance of time for bereavement and to admit to agony. Stevens fails to realize this.
Nevertheless, his adversity is also bound up with his feelings of betrayal and of guilt.