The Ideal of Democracy is distorted in Naipaul’s The Suffrage of Elvira

Abstract

Democracy it’s a beautiful concept, where Equality, Freedom, Justice provided to the people of all strata of society irrespective of caste, creed, gender etc. Actually Democratic form of system is very ideal for administrative point of view.  There are equal opportunities for all sorts of people to participate in the formation of government and equal responsibility while framing rules and regulations as well.  Both the people and the elected representatives failed completely to uphold the very basic objectives of democracy.  And this is nothing but the murder of Democracy. Because in Democratic form of system everything should be transparent but whereas for as third world countries are concerned, no transparencies only corrupted administrative officials, corrupted representative and the people too.  This leads to the distortion of the ideal of the Democracy.  Abraham Lincoln says about Democracy “of the people, by the people and for the people”.  But the present scenario reconstitutes the statement “of the money, by the money and for the money”. Hence in this article Naipaul’s The suffrage of Elvira will be discussed.