• J. Sridhar
• Dr V. Francis

This paper attempts to analyse the Booker prize won novel of Ben Okri, The Famished Road, based on archetypal criticism. As Okri has set this novel in multiple aspects, this can be taken to any approaches to interpret the text. Here the patterns of archetype are taken and applied in the text to focus the recurring images, motifs, symbols and the characters. This paper deals with the archetypal characters like archetypal hero, the great mother and Lazarus; archetypal images like monsters, and spirits; archetypal symbols like the cross, the great king, and the hungry road, etc… Okri has focused in the narration and the art of storytelling with the uses of the archetypal and fantasy characters and patterns.

archetype, symbols, images, fantasy, fetish, spirits, the road, the voice, the black cat, rats.

"Archetypal Patterns in Ben Okri's The Famished Road", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.256-261, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903531.pdf

"Archetypal Patterns in Ben Okri's The Famished Road", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp256-261, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903531.pdf