Original Article ISSN (Online): 2582-7472 ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts January-June 2022 3(1), 498–506 How to cite this article (APA): Parmar, S., and Sood, R. (2022). Comedy of Ideas: Study of Ozick’s Bloodshed and Three Novellas. ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts, 3(1), 498–506. doi: 10.29121/shodhkosh.v3.i1.2022.91 498 COMEDY OF IDEAS: STUDY OF OZICK’S BLOODSHED AND THREE NOVELLAS Shipra Parmar 1 , Dr. Reetika Sood 2 1 Research Scholar of English, Maharaja Agrasen University, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Baddi, Solan Pin code 174103, India 2 Associate Professor, Department of English, Maharaja Agrasen University, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Baddi, Solan Pin code 174103, India ABSTRACT 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. Received 10 February 2022 Accepted 15 June 2022 Published 27 June 2022 Corresponding Author Mrs. Shipra Parmar, samarresearchworks@gmail.com DOI 10.29121/shodhkosh.v3.i1.2022.91 Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. With the license CC-BY, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute, and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author. Keywords: Satire, Culture, Ideas, Judaism, Irony, Tradition, Ozick, Comedy 1. INTRODUCTION The second Collection of Ozick,” Bloodshed and three Novellas is about traditional Jewish dialectic: magic and reality. The characters in this collection of stories are either on margins of Judaism or have shown themselves of their rich Judaic heritage. Ozick depicts the implications of cultural rootlessness and the consequences of repudiating the traditional values in this collection. The novellas in this connection are paired. They afford contrasting views and illumine disparate perspectives. Ozick meditates on tradition in the novellas and talks about the betrayal of mosaic ideas by Jews. She feels that the loss of cultural integrity and