Published Paper Details:

Though the concept has been taken from R.M.Ballantyne’s one of the first works of juvenile fiction, the story is distinguishable and identical to mythological origin of human beings in the world. With the gradual marching of the action in the novel, it unfolds by degrees the genesis, emergence, judgement and capitulation to the omnipotent God. The belief of genesis is identical to the aeroplane crash, emergence of human beings becomes similar with the survivors who come across each other due to the crash on or near an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. Before genesis or creation, according to mythology, there must be a destruction or chaos and this becomes identical to the aeroplane crash. Further, finding a conch, which implies system and governance, can be linked up with the origination of governed society which was prevailing from the primitive age during the epoch of primitive aboriginal beings. Finally, the appearance of naval officer, whose party has landed to investigate the fire, is synonymous, to some extent, to the capitulation and surrender to God to be guided. His appearance is also identical to Deus ex machina , a device which was prevalent around since the time of Greek theatre. From another perspective the naval officer presents foucauldian disciplinary power which does not rely solely on force, instead it controls the subjects through hierarchical surveillance, normalising judgement and examination.