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Existential Trauma: A Study of Transgender Character through SasindranKallinkeel’s Novel Raasathi: The Other Side of a Transgender

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1G. Ramakrishnan, 2Dr. G. Sashi Kala
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2022.12.10.568

Abstract

According to Soren Kierkegaard, “Life is not a problem to be solved. But a reality to be experienced”. To him, human existence is a subjective as well as an authentic one by making some choices in life. Human beings can make choices and live their life as they aspire irrespective of religion, class, caste, sex and gender. Transgender is an umbrella term that stands for those who experience gender identity different from their birth sex. Soren Kierkegaard states that human beings need to pass three stages of life namely aesthetic, ethical and religious for an authentic life. Aesthetic stage deals with immediate pleasure-seeking attitude without making conscious choices, the ethical stage stands for the conscious living in the society with responsibility and finally religious stage is the utmost realization of oneself as surrendering oneself completely to the destiny or the ultimate God. Obviously, transgender people‟s existence becomes valid in terms of Kierkegaard‟s existentialism. Thus, the researchers have tried to trace the struggle as well as existential crisis of the transgender people in modern society by applying the stages of life to the transgender character in the novelRasaathi: The Other Side of a Transgender by SasindranKallinkeel.

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