International Research Journal of Education and Technology

In a traditional society, it is assumed that women form an “out-group” and their primary duties are relegated to home and childrearing. The Indian Writings in English are replete with the archetypal images of women where they are being humiliated and shamed by the ideology, class, creed and religion,by the so-called industrially, philosophically and materially developed societies. Keeping in view thedifferent archetypal roles played by the female protagonists of Indian writings in English, the present paper makes an attempt to give an overview of the woman’s destiny which is being subjected to different kinds of oppression and subjugation in varied contexts, i.e., colonial, postcolonial etc.

KEY WORDS: Tradition, Archetypes, Subjugation, Oppression, Family