• Dr. Hemalatha S

Water gives constant fuel to the fires of imagination of the writers. Water has been used by the writers in different ways, representing different things, to create various points of view in literature. The image of water has clearly no set rules and used to symbolize various ideals such as life and death, birth and rebirth, love and loss, etc. The writers across the globe are exercising the creativity and awareness in portraying the different facets of water. In this way, the Man Booker Prize winner A.S. Byatt in her short stories, “Sea Story”, has encounters the mysterious beauty of the sea in a poignant manner. This paper focuses on how Byatt demystifies the fate of the nearer generation by throwing light on the universal truth of environmental disaster. A.S. Byatt’s “Sea Story” is a haunting tale of a bottle containing a love letter which is thrown into the sea. The story not only explores the romantic aspects but also instigates how an inevitable natural resource, the water, has been corrupted by the human beings. The sea which looks calm and elegant in outlook has so much of mysteries locked inside it. The sea once the habitat of many species is being replaced by the nurdles. Thus, Byatt beautifully portrayed how water, a symbol of purity, now became sign of pollutant.

sea, pollution, love, environmental disaster

"Demystifying Fate and Fact of the Sea in A. S. Byatt’s “Sea Story”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no.g26-g27, December-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312605.pdf

"Demystifying Fate and Fact of the Sea in A. S. Byatt’s “Sea Story”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no. ppg26-g27, December-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312605.pdf