Oriental Elements in Naipaul's Works in the Context of Heterogeneous Cultures——In the Case of In a Free State

is an immigrant novelist with a dual identity. His literary works display colorful pictures. One of his masterpieces, In a Free State, is full of confrontations of heterogeneous cultures and effects of different ideologies. By analyzing the different ideologies in this novel, this paper intends to discuss the heterogeneity in this work and analyzes the ubiquitous oriental elements in his oriental writing.