PANDEMICS VS HUMANITY: AN ARCHETYPAL ANALYSIS OF AMISH’S SHIVA TRILOGY

Abstract

Pandemics and epidemics have found their waysinto human life as a game changer since time immemorial. Periodically literature records such occurrences starting from prehistoric to current period. Various authors use it as a tropefor their narration,causing conflicts and furthering to a solution. How these diseases affect and the effect it has on human existence,how well itexplains the social, physical and psychological underpinnings that defines the society in general and an individual in particular will be studied through the archetypal lens, with a special reference to Amish’s Shiva trilogy. The society which is deeply affected by the plagueshoulders the stigmatisation and outcast. It is inflicted by the people who are major cause behind the predicaments of the people. This study aims to establish how the diseases have a deeper impact unto the unconconscious of the humans and further leading to them to a perpetual paranoia about their existence in the universe with their contemporaries.