Ebook: Persona in Tolkappiyam

Persona is the state of being enjoyed by person in a (literary) work of art. The term person' needs some explanation. Among other things it' could denote such things as (I) an individual human being, (la) the body of a
human being, (lb) the individual personality or self of the human, (2) reference to the speaker, one spoken to and one spoken of as, (3) one of the three modes of being in the Trinitarian Godhead, (4) one that is recognised by law as the subject of rights and duties and (5) character or fictional personality or persona. Of these five meanings the first ('a human individual') pertains to general discussions or philosophical discourse; the second to the province of grammar, the third to theology, the fourth to law, and the fifth to literature. Though the term person has been regarded as a synonym of persona, at times, in criticism both these terms should be Undistinguishable semantically for the sake of clarity.