Abstract: Choice makes our lives. Whether to make it or not is personal, but the result could complicate and complex one’s lives. Even now, the exercise of ‘personal’ is not entirely personal at all. In order to be acceptable, choices has to be observed and agree with the parameters or the norms and conditions of the society. When identity is also embedded with choices one makes, whether one entails it with confidence or hides it to fall under ‘normalcy’ is a subject of importance. Choices could end in disastrous results also. In short, it decides our lives for better or for the worst. Sangeetha Sreenivasan in her novel, Acid talks about choices – the one fails to make- and its consequences on the life of closed ones. The novel explores how an individual caught enmeshed in the societal expectations and multiple responsibilities, and fails to live life. This paper analyses how an external stimuli for survival, use of psychedelic drugs, would end in self- annihilation. And also, it examines how exercise of personal choice and preferences are important in an individual’s pursuit of happiness.
Keywords: Acid, trips, identity, motherhood, society.
Title: Acid: A Psychedelic Journey for Survival
Author: Kabani R.
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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