Psychological perceptions of humour in R. K. Narayan’s works?

Abstract

Abstract

Humour means something funny and enjoyable. It is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provide laughter and amusement. Wit and humour denotes species of comic. Wit is the mental faculty of intelligence or inventiveness. R. K. Narayan uses his wit to produce humour in his novels. Psychological perceptions of humour in Narayan’s novels can be appreciated for his concepts involved in-depth research with many angularities of literary perceptions. The highest level of research has exhibited the range of literary ideas which had gone up to the extent of scientific verification of ideas in the right kind of grits and guts coupled with intellectual powers. He pokes fun at the ironies of everyday problems of a common man. He was totally involved in the genres of humour without being affected by the struggle for independence. He had the vision of going in depth of person’s agony in a particular situation. His characters produce comicality when the right man responsible for a wrong thing and vice-versa and man’s awareness of his self importance and attempt to be equal to the look despite the in congruity for such in his craze for personal distinction. Narayan’s perception of the uncommon in the common is still a success. An attempt is made to discuss the perceptions of humour seen in the situations, descriptions, narrations and dialogues resulting in psychological evolution in the selected novels written by R .K. Narayan leading to the improvement of thought on human life.