Exploration Of Self And Society In Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint

Abstract

This study focuses on Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint subjects the struggle between self and world. Roth’s characterization makes a haven of protection and stability, or a placement, from which they may understand the world meaningfully. In this novel, Roth pertains stability and peace in the achievement of selfhood through sees home may be their static, centred self, from which they could get meaning from their surroundings. In the novel Portnoy’s Complaint, the protagonist reveals external and internal and over suspicious conflicts. Roth’s writing explores Portnoy was artistically adrift, psychologically wrecked and economically weak. He had to overthrow my literary education, once said famously, “I have to overthrow my first three books”, to self-liberate and test my boundary in particular, the line between far and too far. It is revealed that Roth while self-edit his manuscripts, favored, an associative monologue, prickled with distinct mix of humor and bitterness, self-justification and self-incrimination. Thus, Portnoy’s Complaint is an attempt to self-justify and incriminate in a humor and bitterness fashion and to liberate one’s style of writing as an accomplished author.