Isolation In Voices In The City By Monisha

Mai’s fear of losing the memories of her family leads her to realize the significance of her life and ultimately the possibility of losing her understanding.

When first introduced to the narrator, readers quickly pick up on how observant she is to the world around her. However as the novel draws to a close, many quick events take place with little to no explanation or commentary from the

She also saves her pride and arrogance as the Choragos remarks, “Like father, like daughter: both headstrong, deaf to reason! She has never learned to yield.” She had many chances to prevent her demise but her pride stood in the way. Through the progression of scenes leading to her tragic ‘fall’, she is every bit of the woman she was at the beginning.

Jeanette and her siblings have never lived in anything but isolation. The Walls live in isolation because they are different. Since society was after them for not being a “typical family” and being unusual, they chose to isolate themselves. The society they lived in saw Jeanette and her family as “poor and ugly and dirty” (Walls 140).

The author also describes how the sound of her voice defrosted the barren cold that is the hallway. How she would rather sit down with the “pip-squeaks” than her friends. She was someone that Sonia wanted to be.

Anita Nair’s “Ladies Coupe” has narratives by six women characters who by chance meet in a train ladies coupe that Akhilandeswari alias Akhila boards in. all the women speak of the repressive forces of a patriarchal India. Though they are from different community or cultural, all women share pain in different means. The novel is a ‘bildungsroman’ either narrating the childhood to adulthood life or the characters liberation by developing confidence to shun the web of patriarchal metaphors.

The movie gives the message that women must do acknowledge their responsibilities towards themselves, which can and should never be neglected or postponed for the sake of anyone or anything. Nothing in this world is worth sacrificing your own aspirations for. A person’s greatest assets are self-respect, dignity and individuality. Woman should safeguard her identity by not letting her individuality get submerged and by keeping her priorities intact all her life and creating a place for herself.

Blinded by her actions with her beliefs, she forgets the fact that faith without actions is dead. It is by this relentless character that causes her whole family to be murdered in the end.

The excerpt begins with a harsh tone about a woman she describes to be the cause of her separation with her lover. This portrays the simplicity and disorganization of the notebook entries which downright signifies the author’s unsystematic flow of thought. It triggers the readers’ attentions as the sentence presents confusion and

An analogy has been drawn about how she was in the past and how is she now. She was a carefree person, demanding love in her life, wanting to take care of her children and become a house wife and now she works as a schoolteacher, has become a responsible person concerned about her husband and child, struggling for her son’s life, bearing tantrums of her sister-in-law and living in a small house in a small city. On the other hand, Komal, sister-in-law of Anjali is a character shown who seems to be frustrated from her life from the time she has lost her husband. The book has depicted another face of an Indian woman, who lives her entire life following the customs that the society has decided for a widow. Anjali tried to make her first marriage successful by taking care of small things like making her husband, his favorite cardamom chai and best of meals while Prakash’s second wife Indu was never concerned about any of his likings and gave priority to her own personal

She too undergoes drastic changes once the crime has been committed. Soon after, the courage of fantasy for the possession of absolute power gives way to the overbearing guilt of unforeseen consequences of the murder. She suffers for her dark passions and reaches an explosive state as manifested in her sleepwalking and finally in her death by suicide (Bali

demise, she furthermore sacrifices her moral beliefs when she works as a prostitute to afford

The idea of lack of humanisation and identity is woven in throughout the novel as Bertha is often described in an animal like manner which under normal circumstances would not be associated with a Lady of great wealth like

There is evidence of physical, mental, psychological abuse described from an early age. An alcoholic Father, controlling Mother responsible for a series of abortions made against the will of Malaika. A husband who after physically abusing her, once separated becomes a vicuous stalker inducing a consistent fear. At the central part of the book, a man walks into Malaika's life, a charming man with an accent, a man who seemed foreign to her in many ways, he was kind to her, offered a sanctuary away from her tyrannical husband and family, a role model for her two daughters in the true meaning of a “Father”. It is no surprise to the reader when this knight in shining armour turns out to be too good to be true.

Her attempt of her suicide was a failure. Later on, she tells her father she frees herself from him: “I made a model of you, / A man in black with a Meinkampf look / and a love of the rack and the screw. / and I said I do, I do” (64-67). The speaker later marries a man that is very similar to her father. The relationship with her husband was very much like her and her