WOMEN’S ANGUISH IN MARRIED LIFE THROUGH NAIR’S ANJANA FROM THE BETTER MAN AND DESPANDE’S JAYA FROM THAT LONG SILENCE

Abstract

This paper reveals that women have been quite concealed, quite exploited. It explores, even though educated, large section of Indian women are suffering even today. An attempt is made to compare the feminism present in the works of Anita Nair and Shashi Deshpande by protagonist Anjana from The Better Man and Jaya from That Long Silence. Both the novelists have presented the troubles of Indian middle-class women who face inconsistency of tradition and modernity. They express how women are exploited within the marital frame. Present research paper is centered on the examination of sensibility and psychology of female protagonist of Anita Nair and Shashi Despande’s work. This examines the particular conditions of Indian women characterized with self-realization in their different appearances.
Through the character of Anjana we came to know that women are not the puppet in the hands of man but she has her own will to make her existence and from Jaya we came to know that women used to suffer for the sake of children and so called married life.
They suffer from mental trauma because of frustration, hopes and disappointments. They feel trapped between her own aspirations and an individual and forces of patriarchy which confine them. Paper explains that Feminism fights against male prejudice and demands equal rights and treatment of women as human being. Further this paper explores the comparative analysis between two protagonists of both feminist writers.