The Discriminated Sex: A Study in Anita Desai’s Major Novels

Bhawani Kumari *

Abstract

The legacy of writing is continued from generation to generation with the depth of intellect, insight into the Indian traditional patriarchal society. The era of 1970’s witnessed the transformation from the truly Indian traditional women to the women with the understanding in the acceptance and submission to the call of successful life. The transformation of the society and also the change from the pessimist attitude to the venerable conquer is what the Indians represent. It can be said that a woman cannot be analysed as only the woman as she is not wholly responsible for the suffering to the extent that she chooses death as repose. Sometimes it is the circumstance that leads her to alienation, loneliness and suffering. And we are all acquainted with the nature of women that they are fragile by nature. What is inside a woman remains unsaid as she is unable to confide herself due to incompatibility in her companionship. When we see the Indian society as an outsider, we get the contradictory society living in age long customs which is still top on the priority. In India, marriage happens to be a sacrosanct institution, and the contradictory part is that woman has to be slave in the surrounding of her in-laws instead of better-half to her husband.

Keywords

Anita Desai Indian English fiction Gender discrimination Female identity

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Journal Information

The Interiors

Volume 3, Issue 1

ISSN: 2319-4804

Published: December 2014

Citation

Kumari, B. (2014). "The Discriminated Sex: A Study in Anita Desai’s Major Novels". The Interiors, 3(1), pp. 173-177.

Corresponding Author

Bhawani Kumari

Research Scholar, Dept. of English, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya