Difficult Daughters: A feministic study of Manju Kapurs writings

Women are sometimes presented as goddesses; other times as subordinate beings but never as ordinary human beings. Feminism spreads awareness about injustice and oppression of women at the hands of patriarchy. In their writings, women describe and attack the suffocating conventions and norms that restrict women within the narrow world of morality. Manju Kapur penned her views and draws attention towards patriarchal society and need of universal freedom for women. She makes them realize that there are infinite horizons to spread their wings and dreams of liberty beyond the periphery of the household. Manju Kapur is a feminist writer because in all her novels she deals with the pathetic and oppressive situations of Indian women. Her novels denounce the socio-cultural predicament of Indian women imprisoned in a male-dominated patriarchal society. Her main novels are Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman, Homes, The Immigrant, and Custody. Most of her main characters are educated wives and belong to the Indian middle class. They face struggles for freedom, identity, equality with people, and their own space. Her suffering and suffocation in her family and marital relationships are clearly reflected in her novels. This paper presents the woman as a person who fights against concealment and mistreatment of the male-controlled society. 

 

 

Keywords: Silence, Suffocation, Emancipation, Modernity, Human nature, Tradition, Conjugal roles. 

 

Silence Suffocation Emancipation Modernity Human nature Tradition Conjugal roles.