Analysis Of Radha And Shyam's Marriage

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Shyam’s idea of marriage is to keep a pretty wife, indulge in her wishful fancies and make her reliant on him. He does not want a confident woman as a wife. Radha and Shyam are mismatched in many ways and she feels suffocated in her marriage. She compares herself to the butterfly she wrapped up and stuck to a board as part of biology assignments in school and feels that her heart aches to fly somewhere departing from her husband. Shyam’s nature symbolizes the typical, Indian governing and trying to rule over every aspect of his wife’s life.
Radha is emotionally detached and fairly disdainful of her husband, Shyam. Their matrimony existed only in name, without any effort on the part of Radha to keep it lively. She was unable to create a bond with him and considered that her marriage was already “fractured” as she mentioned to Chris. It is the beginning to enjoy her life and first step indirectly to voice out her travail. An affair can add excitement and a sense of purpose to life, and often this activity helps to taste up the state of achieving autonomy, from the hands of the dominati...

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