Paper Details

The current study will examine Shashi Deshpande's use of myth and folklore as a means of investigating the deeper recesses of the woman-psyche, who has been a silent witness to every suffering committed on her kind by no one other than her counterpart and a society that all too often acts as a villain with all its means since the beginning of time. The word 'myth' comes from the Greek word mythos, which literally means 'story’. It seeks to explain how the world was created or why the world is the way it is by storing all the knowledge that has existed in the human mind since the beginning. Myths, like allegory, are frequently symbolic and vast, encompassing an entire work or story. However, it is no longer limited to a single civilization and is no longer ubiquitous in that society. It examines how allusions enrich both the individuals and the events. She believes that myths are powerful cultural and social influences. A variety of mythologies are featured in the novel That Long Silence. Some of them include Sita, Draupadi, Gandhari, Maitreyee, Savitri, and so on.

Myth, Folklore, Indian Tradition and Culture, Indian Society, Superstition