Paper Details

The women characters of Markandaya approximate to conventional models of Indian womanhood. They show extraordinary endurance and strength of character and rise above passivity of mere acceptance of their lot to become individuals involved in the struggle of life. The feministic stance in her novels is unique and distinctive. The female characters are well portrayed as independent thinker and they are ready to confront and endure all oddities allocated to them. Her protagonists, come across as a woman whose strength, courage, perseverance and resilience are a on spot response to all those patriarchal institutions promoting the stereotypical images of women. The writer put down her female characters in different adverse circumstances and their endurance is tested in which a higher ideology of woman comes out which outshines all the negative aspects of woman’s life. She doesn’t portray her female characters as victims in all her novels rather they are shown as an epitome of will and patience standing upright against all onslaughts in some of her novels. Her characters stand throughout the novel and succeeds in asserting and affirming an independent and self-identity that celebrates her womanhood. The author opposes the gender ideology in which men are shown to be superior to women.

Conventional, Unique, Distinctive, Resilience, Endurance