COMEDY OF IDEAS: STUDY OF OZICK’S BLOODSHED AND THREE NOVELLAS

Cynthia Ozick is an emphatic voice of new Jewish American novels who reveals various
issues that a Jew has to face while living in mainstream American culture. She advocates
ethnicity and chooses the comic mode to reveal the truth. Charles Krauthammer's works
try to define the issue of being Jewish in today's American society via his novels, short
stories, and essays. Ozick uncovered a plethora of previously unexplored area by delving
deep into Judaism's most ancient religious texts. The present paper aims at the in-depth
study of the second collection of short stories "Bloodshed and three Novellas'. In these
stories Ozick which focuses on the betrayal of tradition by Jews. She brings out the
hilarious situations and ideas by focusing on various flaws and blemishes in the
personalities of her characters. She also mocks at their defective physical appearances.
In fact, the comic elements in her fiction have a much higher purpose than only evoking
laughter. The present paper also attempts to study how Ozick's comedy is a mirror of
human reality and focuses on humanity. The present paper is an endeavor to show how
Ozick's comedy has a fair share of flippancy, folly, and jest and how it manifests itself in
forms like irony, satire, grotesque, and farce.