• Dr Sudhir Kumar

Motif is a recurring idea, theme or conventional situation or incident in folklore, fiction or drama. For example, quest is a basic motif in much literature. The motif of quest or search has been used time and again in epics like the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Ramayana and so on. It is a particular, dominant element or pattern that runs through a work of art, literature or music. In James Joyce's Ulysses, there is the motif of one-legged sailor. In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, there are striking clocks as motifs. The motif of imperishability of art runs through the work of Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats and many other writers. We discuss Motifs and Symbols in Herzog through this article in English literature. However symbols in literature are different in the sense that they appeal in context and have to be understood that way. There are two broad tpes of symbols in literature .Firstly There are symbols that are used widely in literature. They have universal suggestions. For example, ocean and land suggest eternity, voyage or journey suggest life. Secondly There are certain symbols which are used in unique ways by some writers. For example, in Farewell to Arms by Hemingway, rain becomes the symbol of death. In Herman Melville's Moby Dick,symbols of voyage, land and ocean are used in various contexts with various meanings. Symbols are often taken from specific areas of knowledge like Freudian psychology. Sometimes, the entire work becomes symbolic. For example, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner symbolises the universal journey into depths of despair and sin and back to spiritual stability and redemption.

literature ,philosophy , psychology, symbol , spiritual ,modernity and antiquity

"COMBINATIONS OF MOTIFS AND SYMBOLS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.f695-f697, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112589.pdf

"COMBINATIONS OF MOTIFS AND SYMBOLS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. ppf695-f697, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112589.pdf