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Shashi Deshpande is one of the famous contemporary Indian novelists in English. She writes about the conflict between tradition and modernity in relation to women in middle class society. Shashi Deshpande’s novel deals with the theme of the quest for a female identity. The complexities of man-woman relationship especially in the context of marriage, the trauma of a disturbed adolescence. The Indian woman has for years been a silent sufferer. While she has played different roles-as a wife, mother, sister and daughter, she has never been able to claim her own individuality. Shashi Deshpande has emerged as a writer possessing deep insight into the female psyche. Focusing on the marital relation she seeks to expose the tradition

Deshpande's concern and sympathy are primarily for the woman in whatever circumstances she might be placed or whatever role in the society she might be playing. While revealing the woman's struggle to secure self-respect and self-identity for herself through her protagonists, the author subtly unravels the multiple levels of oppression, including sexual oppression experienced by women in our society thus creating a new social awareness. This stance of Deshpande makes her a potential feminist writer creating a woman's world with loving, care and a soothing touch depicting the nuances of her consciousness while advocating her liberation from the meticulously concocted web of imposed socio-cultural orders that have existed over centuries. From

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

Ismat Chughtai, the Urdu writer of fierce feminist sentiments, has never got the accolades that have been bestowed upon her contemporaries- especially male contemporaries. She is remembered as a controversial writer who did not hide anything in her narratives; and hence irked her contemporary society in all possible manners. I am of the opinion that it is high time to re-evaluate the works of Ismat Chughtai by foregrounding her unflinching anti-hegemonic sentiments. Chughtai was a Feminist who challenged the status-quos and prudery of the Indian culture shaped up during the Victorian era. Her collection of short stories raised such a storm all across the country that she even had to face the court of law. The primary charge labelled against

In the text “To Build a Fire”, one theme is to always trust animal instincts. A newcomer decided travel with a dog in 75 below zero degree weather. Before he left, he got advice from an old man to never travel alone in 50 below zero degree weather. It was the newcomer’s first winter. The man didn’t listen to the old man’s advice. The dog tried to tell the man to go back to the fire they had made. The man didn’t listen to the dog. The man made the dog walk in front of him because of the hidden traps. Since the man didn’t listen to the dog or the old man’s advice, his actions caused him to fall through ice. So he sat there and went into a sleep and for hours he never woke up and the dog sensed death The man lied there until

In the story ‘’To Build A Fire ‘’A man is traveling along the Yukon trail. With his dog. The man is told not to travel alone but he does anyway, this man thinks he is smarter than both the wise old man and the dogs instincts however he falls short of caution ands thinks that nothing could possibly go wrong which causes his death in the end . There are many themes in this story but one that caught my attention was to nit heed warnings lightly.

Much of the conflict in Lahiri’s short stories stems from feelings she experienced early in her life. Her experience as an outsider and her resentment of her family’s Indian heritage provided the inspiration for much of her writing. She uses the conflict inside marriage to explore feelings of personal identity and alienation in her short stories. Her characters face many personal difficulties in their marriages. “Marriage is the unifying theme for the collection, and is the key element in most stories” (Bess 167).

Anita Desai undoubtedly holds a prominent position among the Contemporary writers of Indo –Anglican fiction. She is a bold and experimental Novelist with a new sense and vibrant richness. Much attention is given to the emotional crisis of her protagonists who live in a chaotic society. She delves deep to find out the factors responsible for such a despair and attempts to suggest solutions to overcome it. From her novels, it is clear that she, possesses one of the healthiest and psychologically most balanced minds in the realm of Indo – Anglican fiction and the sanity of her tastes and attitudes, is almost exemplary, a point worth emulation for her fellow religionists in the field of writing. As a woman writer she does not profess to be a feminist and yet she voices the fears and concerns, the hopes and aspirations of her characters in her own artistic way. She is deeply fascinated in exploring the social structure through the central characters in her novels. She is a minute observer of the society existing around her, perceiving everything minutely and delicately so that the situations can be presented in a poetic style.

The Indian society believes that men have the facility and cultural hegemony in the group. A odd feature of the Indian action is that men defend maleness and deem women not manly which is not basically human. Women are marginalised through cultural institutions and religious rituals. Feminist movements have been maddening for removal of this marginalisation. The hermetic salutation of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s helped theorize a girl's discourse. A feministically right to use text can gain to a better covenant of the woman's condition Feminism in Indian English literature is focused so many years back. Feminism refers to the support of women’s right. This right is to remove gender discrimination and gives equal status to female in society. From the early period to modern period women writers presents the theme to highlight women issues in society. It goes on developing its content time to time. It starts with suppression of women and slowly comes to revolt of women. Feminism in India is a set of movements bearing in mind the direct of defining establishing and defending diplomatic and socio-economical rights and equal opportunities for Indian women. Like the feminists of new countries in India too the women be lacklustre for gender equality, the right to sham for equal wages the right to equal entry to health, education and politics too and I should make known for

In this novel, Bharati Mukherjee explores what happens to a gendered character that has been “smashed by hammer blows, and melted down”. Does mobility and nomadism really offer a female character a way of redefining her identity and her relationship to home. Desirable Daughters utilizes unusual measures of self-portraying material in a migrant novel of self-discovery that combines components of fairy- tale-like myth with an intense mystery-thriller plot. “Desirable Daughters” as the title proposes, one kind of daughter, which parents would be pleased and proud of and for whom each parent would desire. The three sisters, who are the daughters of Motilal Bhattacharya and the great grand-daughters of Jai Krishna Gangooli, belong to a traditional Bengali Brahmin family. Padma, Parvathi and Tara are typical names of Shakti (Goddess of Hindu) do not flaunt the some ethical and moral values but have the courage to carve a position for them. They are a blend of both traditional and modern

Shashi Despande is an Indian women novelist who is famous for her novels portraying the piteous plight and presentation of women under the patriarchal domination. She believes that men and women are the two wheels of the same chariot. She has depicted women in many roles like mother, wife, daughter, and an individual. Like typical new women Despande’s protagonists are modern, educated and career oriented middle class women who are sensitive to the changing scenario and are in search for their roots and identity. They fight against the traditional convention of slavery and suppression. Being the archetypal of the new generation of self-accomplished women, they come out with new ways of handling their problems, rather than running away from them, they realize that the solution lie within themselves. She creates new spaces within the old discourses thereby recreating new worlds in which women are no longer

She discovers deep-rooted gender stereotypes in Taro and in a book where she reads, “[i]n a society where men dominate, they value women only as the object of men’s passions.” (Carter) Her boyfriend Taro is a typical Japanese man, chauvinistic and patriarchal. Being a Westerner, our female protagonist has been deeply influenced by the idea of individuality due to fact that since “the advent of the nation-state, people in the West have come to understand ‘society’ to mean an association of individuals.” (McKinney) The Japanese gender stereotypes totally overthrows the Western concept of individuality. She disagrees with it, yet out of her love for Taro, she does not just break up with him and be free from the constraints of being an “ideal wife”. Instead she compromises, stays at home, waits for Taro to return from work and persuades herself that it is “a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.” (Carter) She re-evaluates and puts her native culture aside, sacrifices her individuality and gives up what Western culture has made her

Anita Desai and Shashi Deshande are women who were more interested to represent human psyche, study of human beings ruined within and outside. Both are great artist who portray the characters instilled with real, emotional, natural and lively traits in them. Mainly they showed the pain and sufferings of women. The society and family members imposed various responsibilities and restrictions to them. The life of women is like a prison, they trap into various responsibilities and duties throughout her life. They work without any rest for the welfare of family and to complete all the demands of the society. Women have to complete all her duties which she plays throughout her life, the

“To Build a Fire” by Jack Landon is written with a simple plot and a valuable moral lesson to learn. The title suggests that a fire will be built, at least by the end of the story, rather than the lack of success in fire building. The main character and his dog are determined to get to the mining camp where his friends are. Unfortunately, to get there he must take the risk of disregarding an elder’s advice to not travel alone through Yukon in those weather conditions. He begins stubborn and persistent but as he travels along, he soon realizes that the constant effort to build a fire is not good enough to survive in that environment. Matches are no longer an option when he runs out with still no fire. Desperation overtook him but he was left with no contingency plan, leaving him ready to face death with pride as he slowly lost feeling throughout his body.

As might be expected from the rich input of her cultural background, Kiran Desai, daughter of the author Anita Desai is a born story-teller. Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), is a fresh look at life in the sleepy provincial town of Shahkot in India. At 35 years old, Desai is the youngest woman ever to win the prize and was already highly acclaimed in literary circles for her first novel ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’ which won a Betty Trask award [2] when it was published in 1998. She spent eight years writing her second novel “The Inheritance of Loss” [3] . Much has been made of the parallels between the book and Desai's family history but it's not an autobiography. Desai herself has said that in places it's