Altering the Stereotype of Dependent Women and Their Self-Assertion
Author : Tejal Sonawane
Abstract :
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes; this reality of life inevitably reflects in literature and the position of woman is no exception to this phenomenon. The status of women all over the globe particularly in India has undergoing a rapid change in recent times. The personality of woman was inundated by the male dominated attitudes against the backdrop of predominantly male oriented culture. She was left with no mind, no personality, no individuality, no freedom, no compatibility of her own. She had been ‘a woman in the shadow of man’. The woman in life and literature had capitulated to the male paramountcy leaving no subsistence of her own. The changes brought about by the western culture and education, freedom struggle and changes in the economic conditions which jolted the foundation of joint family proved powerful pedals to bring woman out of the shadow of the Sita image. She gradually came out of the cocoon of pride in suffering and tolerating and started searching for her ‘self’ and her existence in society. The struggle was a traumatic not only to her but to the so-called orthodox people who dehumanised woman for their selfish ends.
Keywords :
Assimilation, assertion, aspirations, repatriation, predicaments, subjugation.
