Vol. 16, Issue 1, Jul-Dec 2023
Page: 39-47
SEARCH OF IDENTITY: A STUDY OF MANJU KAPURS NOVEL DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS
Suparna Sharma, Dr. Veenu Girdhar
Received Date: 2018-02-02
Accepted Date: 2018-03-06
Published Date: 2018-03-15
This paper presents the woman as an individual who fights against suppression and oppression of the patriarchy. The novel Difficult Daughters sensibly shows the position of women and her longing struggle to establish an identity. Manju Kapur has come out as serious social thinker in her novels because there is a purpose behind her writing. All her novels have been written with a definite purpose because the novelist tries to analyze issues related to the middle class or upper middle class women. Manju Kapur is much interested to present the questions and problems related to women in a larger perspective. In her novels, the womens questions have emerged essentially in the context of the identity of the new educated middle class. Manju Kapurs female protagonists are mostly educated. They are strong individuals but imprisoned within the boundary of conservative society. Their education leads them to independent thinking for which their family and society become intolerable to them, in their individual struggle with family and society through which they plunged into a dedicated effort to search an identity for them as qualified women with faultless background. The novelist has portrayed her protagonists as women caught in the conflict between the passions of the flesh and yearning to be a part of the political and intellectual society of today.
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