The Personal Forever at War with the Public – A Study of the Patient(s) in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

Abstract

“The Personal Forever at War with the Public – A Study of the Patient(s) in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient” by Navdeep Kaur and Nikhilesh Yadav negotiates the idea of disease and explores it with reference to The English Patient. English Nationalism excludes whatever does not comes under its umbrella of normality; analysing the characters of the novel, the paper puts forward its argument with a nuanced understanding of the roles played by the different characters.