A Deer In The Forest By Ambai Analysis

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel, The Palace of Illusions is the epitome of feminism. It retells the story of Mahabharata from the view point of Draupadi, the daughter of King Drupad. The delicate threads of her life have beautifully been interwoven to bring forth a grasping story. Chitra Banerjee has herself written “I would uncover the story that lay invisible between the lines of the men’s exploits. Better still I would have her one of her tell it herself, with all her joys and doubts, her struggles and her triumphs, her heartbreaks, her achievements, the unique female way in which she sees her world and her place in it.”(XV).

Women in India were unaware of their miserable condition. It is in the post independence period the women’s quest for identity of her own commenced. The 20th century saw the shift from outer to inner sensibilities and no one can better understand a man or woman better a feminine writer. In modern English fiction a number of women novelists have arrived on the literary scene, they have set out making new forays in to the world of women. Nayantara Sahgal being a feminist writer has emphasized in her novels on freedom and a new definition of the New Women. Sahgal’s heroines are well aware of the injustice done to them in their marriage and they come out of this traditional bond.

This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections of Indian girls, to see how they emerge in ideological terms. Their journeys from self-alienation to self-adjustment, their childhood struggles against the hypocrisies and monstrosities of the grown-up world, eventually demolishing the unjust male constructed citadels of power that hinder their progress- are the highlighted issues. The point of comparison between the two novels focused on here is the journey of Rahel in The God of Small Things and Sai in The Inheritance from a lonely childhood to a tragic adulthood passing through a struggle with the complex forces of patriarchal society. Both the novels portray the imaginativeness, inventiveness, independence, rebelliousness, wide-eyed wonder and innocence associated with these young girls.

Indian English Literature is defined as the contribution of Indian writers to the Literature in English. With the consolidation of the British power in India, English, the language of rulers also began to exercise its influence on the intellectuals of the country. To the educated people, English language is a gateway to western knowledge. English provided a window for the Indian intellectuals to have a look at the wide world.

In this essay I am going to compare the main characteristics of the two most important characters of this book. They were both born in Afghanistan but each of them was raised by totally different families. In spite of not having the same social background after several years they meet one another and live together, as wives of their strict husband Rasheed who refuses modern rights for women.

Literature is the key to our world or language. Many writers have emerged from this subject such as Homer who wrote The Odyssey and Euripidies who wrote about the evil Medea. Also mentioned in this paper are the Thousand and One Arabian Nights which is a collection of folktales and stories that are compiled into one. Each of these works of literature has a woman character that has many similarities in solving their problems. In The Odyssey the woman character that will be in comparison is Penelope which is Odysseus’s wife. In the story of Medea, Medea is of course the character we will be discussing and Shaharazad is the woman character from the Thousand and One Arabian Nights that will also be in comparison. Each of these women find

Divakaruni contains exquisitely written eleven short stories. The Falgu-like undercurrent of feminist cry runs through the nucleus of the stories. All the stories have women at their foci and lays bare their burning problems, their psychological conflict, their identity crisis, their demythologizing of the womanhood, their rebellious angst against the patriarchal domination, their search for identity, their self-independent and self-actualisation in their lives. Arranged Marriage is Divakaruni’s testament for women’s liberation, women’s right to self-expression and their way-out to individualization. Some of her heroines take control of their destinies single-handedly and some with the assistance of other

Our society has created an identity for women since ancient days. Women are considered as an weaker sex and inferior to men. Though she plays a important role in her life, she is not found as an individual human being with all emotions and sufferings. She is supposed to live a life of dedication, surrendering and devotion. In Indian fiction, the women are modelled with the above qualities. Those qualities of women created a large impact on the Indian psyche and the expectation of society, and consciously or unconsciously

The Philips Collection located at 1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009 is a block north of DuPont Circle, and houses a collection of Modern painting from a multitude of modern art movements including German Expressionism to Abstract Expression. These paintings adorn the walls of the first three floors, and the basement contains the library. The Phillips collection not only houses paintings, but also has an array of modern sculptures, and photographs too. The dialogue created between the viewers and the artwork exhibits was immense and thought provoking. However, two paintings considerably stood out. Reclining Figure, an oil painting produced by Pablo Picasso in the year of 1934 mounts a wall on the third floor, and has the dimensions

Using the elements of fiction and truth a mass amount can be gained from understanding how women fit in with the government/patriarchy. From novels comparably, A Passage to India and A Handmaid’s Tale, these two reflect different times: a realistic time of Indian Imperialism and a Utopian fantasy that could indubitably become the future of tomorrow. How do they correspond with the role of women? Both either represent or differ from the true, unseen representation of women amongst the power of the elite, against the suppressors of the minority, and the

The setting was early November, the weather was cool, the leaves crisp and falling to the force of the frigid fall breeze. Deer season was in full swing, while Jon and Lance were on a mission to kill a monster buck the two of them had been watching. Over the course of the last two months Jon and Lance had been bowhunting several times in search of the monster buck the two of them had seen. This buck was bigger than either one of them had ever seen. The buck stood as tall as a horse and the bucks rack went towering in the sky, which was visible from miles away. With the size of this buck it should be super easy to hunt him they though, he cannot hide very good. There was an issue though, because every time Jon and Lance seen this monster buck in the woods while hunting, strange things seemed to happen. For example, every time Jon or Lance sighted the buck it would quickly vanish into thin air. As weird as that seems to be that is not the craziest thing that has happened. Every time the buck would vanish there would be some sort of violence directed towards Jon or Lance. One time for instance, the buck was spotted between Jon and lance while hunting and it disappeared. Soon after that Jon just about got shot in the head with an arrow. Jon was just sitting there in his tree stand dazed at the pure amazement of the buck disappearing and he felt a quick breeze go by his head followed by a loud crack in the tree. There was an arrow stuck in the tree

The articles “Voicing the Feminine Within: A Journey through the Life Narrative of A. Revathi”, Writing a Life Between Gender Lines: Conversations with A.Revathi about her autobiography The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story”, Gender Geometry: A Study of A. Revathi’s autobiography The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story and the interview Voice of Visibility by NithinMayanth are the only works directly based on Revathi’s autobiography The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story, the primary text of this research.

Anita Nair is a popular Indian English-language writer. She has much insight into the concerns of studies, family, love and striving for fame and fortune . She makes an attempt to show the quality of strength in a woman. Anita Nair also adds that strength is not usually considered a woman as this. Her styles ultimately differ from other feminist writers. In other words, she is a feminist with difference. She traces the real position of women in the families as well as in the society. Her attempt to exhibit the plight, fears, dilemmas, contradictions and ambitions of her women characters is remarkable. Her primary focus of attention is the world of women, the struggle of women in the content of modern Indian society. Her novel reveals the

The political and social events of the sixties and the seventies along with growing opportunities of education and employment for women encourage women belonging to the urban middle class to engage in literary activities. The thematic concerns of these women writers have been cantering around women related issues. The social setting for most of these writings is the urban middle class and the protagonist is, more often than not, a woman. Indian Culture treats women with utmost reverence. Women are identified with Adi Shakti or the primordial energy. Woman’s avatar as mother treated as highest manifestation of human relationship; It is the mother who gets precedence over all other principles of life including father and god in importance. She

In looking at the The Deer Hunter as a model for the effects of war on people, we have to consider the type of community they come from. This isn’t the the same community that Ron Kovic -and I’m using BOFJ because it poses questions of how war affects people as a prominent theme- came from and therefore the experience is not the same. Similar, yes, in the sense that there is loss in both experiences, but the depth of the suffering is very different. The nature of their surroundings very much affected how the war had an affect on them and their community back home. I would argue that unlike Ron Kovic’s struggle with having to reexamine his ideas of America and “what it was all for”, so to speak, The Deer Hunter portrays a separate set of problems that don’t -in my opinion- point in the same direction. There is an intersection of their experience with war with and that of others like Ron Kovic especially in that of Steve’s storyline. Problems with masculinity, acceptance, and acclimating to civilian life are all present in these stories. It is each person’s background, their upbringing, their personality that determines how war changes them, what it takes away from them.