A Study of John Fowles as Time Traveller of Twentieth Century Britain

Abstract

The Twentieth century Britain was a time to exalt to disillusionment age and the writers of thr age are found to be commenting more on the contemporary issues. John Fowles, a British Fiction writer, finds the contemporary world to be devoid of any value to attribute and the belief in the idea of re-examining past for the present existence. He seems to develop extreme curiosity in past events and life style of British people when one reads through his narrative. . The curiosity that raised form past episodes points to an urge for going back to an era or even more than just an era. This time travelling mentality is general to his writings. Assume that novels are time machines it means that the writer is transported to a different time than the present era. The writer seems to be in a place where there is no real identity just like a regular novel. If the genre altogether is going to be taken for the consideration the authors of these novels have no real identity and trapped in the time. This paper attempts to read Fowles novels as a time travelling entity and takes two novels in providing possible explanations to reach the conclusion. Through the depiction in each of these novels it can be seen as some part of it besides being a Postmodern novel carries certain amount of time travel as if in science fiction stories.