The Impact Of Women During A Patriarchal Societal Set Up

In the 1890’s the term ‘feminism’ was coined, about 50 years after the women's rights movement started. The fight for the equality of the sexes has been going on for over one hundred years. People who are feminists seek to fight for equality between men and women. This includes equality in education, employment, and salary. Aldous Huxley wrote the novel Brave New World in 1931, in a time where women were still fighting for equality. Just 11 years prior, women were given the right to vote in the U.S. When you analyze Brave New World through a feminist stance, it exposes the inequality in an “equal” society. In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley explores the inequality of the sexes by showing the patriarchy throughout the society. He

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

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Throughout the times of the late 1600’s all the way up to the 1900’s, we have seen many ways how genders have been viewed towards the eyes of society. From taking care of their families to actually working, males and females had different gender statuses in the things they did and participated in. The different roles, perceptions and misperceptions that each gender role-played had a big influence in structuring a particular society and managing how things were being run. In the short play Tartuffe, by Jean-Baptiste Moliere and “Punishment”, by Rabindranath Tagore, we really see how males and females were distinguished; and how each of them were viewed, treated and played into a particular society. Orgon and Mariane from Jean-Baptiste Moliere and Dukhiram and Radha from Punishment are characters that played tremendous roles in their parts, which really showed the perception of the power of the man and the lack of respect a female had during those times.

In the article the author makes an argument that how Indian women and their renaissance in terms of social status started much earlier before the modern world. She mentions names of women like Gargi and Maetri who were philosophers and how they are mentioned with pride in the vedic time and how the concept of “Brahmavadinis” in which a woman devotes her life towards studies has been there in India since ancient times. According to her, this tradition though not universally popular continued with Andals, Akka Mahadevis and Meeras who played a major role in shaping our culture, art and civilization. These women pave the way for women like Rani Jhansi, Rani Padmini and ultimately the first female prime minister Indira Gandhi which is unique for India in many ways.

Dattani sees Tara as a play about the gendered self , about coming to terms with the feminine side of oneself in a world that always favours what is ‘male’ , but many people in India see it as a play about the girl child. The modern Indian drama concentrates on the several current issues and the real life problems. Some of the modern drama writers include Badal Sircar, Mahesh Dattani and Manjula Padmanabhan etc. The topic of discussion here is Mahesh Dattani’s “Tara”(1990). Tara” was first published in 1990. This plays is talks about the family tragedy in which the members of the family are suffering. It shows gender difference in Indian society. Throughout the play Dattani has used this difference of male and female.

Kamala Das’ poetry tends to explore the man-woman relationship where she tries to uncover and subvert the politicized patriarchal representation of gendered identity. She openly revolts against the traditionally accepted womanhood concepts in the Indian society, and urges the women not to pretend like a nympho that makes them a puppet of masculine world. She raises her voice against the norms of society which want female to fit into the traditional framework. The frankness with which Kamala Das depicts her personal relationship about love, sex, loneliness

This paper explores the idea of feminism represented by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The paper uses method of dialogism and second wave of feminism to critically examine palace of illusions. Walking back to the 1600 B.C and the longest poems of all time Mahabharata which consists of 1,00,000 versus of shlokas. Mahabharata itself means 'Great India'. The title first selected by the writer of Mahabharata, ved vyasa was 'Jaya' which means 'victory'.Mahabharata an Indian mythological epic is the most adopted modern fiction.

The development feminism in India has prompted the scrutinizing of the conspicuous old patriarchal control. The ladies of today decline to be manikins in the hands of men. Henceforth the picture of ladies has experienced an intense change. The Indian female authors have made a move from the conventional depictions of persevering generous ladies to delineation of their inward life and inconspicuous relational connections. The clashing enthusiasm of man and lady in the general public thus of self-stating ladies, who are engaged in intense scan for their personality, is the lobby characteristic of present day depiction of female characters. Arundhati

Tendulkar, in Sakharam Binder depicts a very pitiable condition of women in a patriarchal society. It is the story of two women—Laxmi and Champa. Sakharam tortures Laxmi during day by making her to do all the household work, and during night she has to attend to his sexual advances. Similarly he exploits Champa, the eighth women in his life. She has suffered most on account of her voluptuous body.

During the ancient period women enjoyed high status and played a significant role in society and a feminine term “Shakti” literally means “power and strength”. Literary evidence suggests that kings and towns were destroyed because the rulers troubled a single woman. Ilango Adigal’s Sillapathigaram teaches us Madurai, the capital of the Pandyas was burnt because Pandyan Nedunchezhiyan mistakenly did harm to Kannaki. But the status and role of woman discriminated in the later periods and they were considered to be the weaker sex, food giver and sex object. Her status and dignity as a woman is not accepted in society as well as at home. Our history reveals many instances how she is meted out injustice, deprived of her basic needs and even fundamental rights. From the position of a deity she is degraded into a prostitute who sells her body for money due to miserable living condition, poverty and starvation. Such survival sex can be vividly seen in Jayanta Mahapatra’s poem “Hunger”. The poem presents a sentimental touching story of a fifteen year old girl who becomes a whore to keep starvation at bay with the consent of her father- a poor fisher man. Here her father himself acts as a pimp because hunger reigns over the father- daughter relationship. The poem is an unapologetic commentary on our society, i.e., how a girl of fifteen, who should be given a safe environment to live, is used for satiates the hunger of so-called moralistic and upright civilized society. The poem also

The present paper aims to probe into the patriarchal attitude of the society in which it fixes certain taboo or derogatory identity to women. Manju Kapur shone into fame, receiving the Commonwealth prize with her debut novel, ‘Difficult Daughters’. The title of the novel attracted the attention of many research scholars. Why did Manju Kapur give the title ‘Difficult Daughters’ to her first novel? and why not ‘Audacious Daughters’? Daughters who are not submissive to the patriarchal norms are termed as ‘difficult’ daughters by the society. This attitude of patriarchal society is giving vent to social evils such as female foeticide and gender discrimination. A deep dive into the textual ocean of ‘Difficult Daughters’ makes the fact clear that the protagonist, Virmati is not a simple girl, putting age-old ideals into practice, rather she is ‘difficult’ because she is treading an age- old ideality of male dominated society. Instead of accepting and respecting a women’s self expression,

In the book ‘The New Woman in Indian English Writers Since the 1970’s’ Vijaylakshmi Sheshadri charts out the history of women’s writing and how it was compared to standard (patriarchal) ideals of the Pativrata image of women influenced by Classical Indian literature. Those that deviated from the established code were either marginalised or severely criticised.

Violence is an integral part of the life of human beings. Tendulkar’s plays illustrate violence in its fullest form. Violence is noticed everywhere in Tendulkar’s dramatic world – excessive sexual lust of the protagonist in Sakharam, the Book Binder, the cruel cunning game in the form of a mock trial in Silence!, overambitious young journalist’s craze for money and fame in Kamala, the rude and brutal interactions of the family members in Vultures, Ghashiram’s revenge on the Brahmins of Poona and vice-versa in Ghashiram Kotwal, a young Dalit’s brutal treatment of his pregnant wife in Kanyadaan and the mob’s physical violence in Encounter in Umbugland . Sakharam the Book Binder explores violence at the verbal level.

The status of woman all over the world, particularly in India, has been undergoing a rapid change in the