• Dr Abhinav Chauhan

Dana Hilliot is the nucleus round which Malcolm Lowry's first novel Ultramarine (1933) revolves. Dana Hilliot becomes a member of the crew on the deck of the ship Oedipus Tyrannus bound for the Far East. He becomes a sailor for The sake of fun and when the Quarter Master wants to know from Hilliot about the motive that prompted him to become a sea-man he tells him that he has chosen seamanship not as a calling or vocation but for the sake of sheer enjoyment of life. Hilliot's choice of a ship as a vehicle for the enjoyment of life is quite significant. When he boards the ship, he finds an affinity with it. He has kinship with the ship in the sense that both are without an identity of their own. In Chapter Two in his soliloquy within parenthesis he introduces the Oedipus Tyrannus to his girl friend Janet. He says:

The sense of alienation and search for identity in Malcolm Lowry’s novel Ultramarine

"The sense of alienation and search for identity in Malcolm Lowry’s novel Ultramarine", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.1603-1610, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904S34.pdf

"The sense of alienation and search for identity in Malcolm Lowry’s novel Ultramarine", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp1603-1610, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904S34.pdf