The Role Of Women In Difficult Daughter By Manju Kapur

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India amid 1940s.It presents the issues of an upper class urban Arya Samaj Punjabi family in Amritsar. The picture of women in Indian fiction has faced many changes in the midst of the recent four decades. Many of the Indian Women writers in English write their fiction, which revealed the original state of Indian culture and its impact on woman. Manju Kapur is one of the great writers, who deal the issues concerning women in the public. In her novels, Manju Kapur speaks through her female characters as an impression of the essential Indian women fighting for their rights in a patriarchal society. Their inner longings, sentiments, battles and sufferings have been evidently portrayed in her novels. The present novel Difficult Daughter presents …show more content…

Her women behave in their own style assigned to them by Kapur. All women protagonists in her novels are married one. Her all protagonists belongs to urban middle class. Manju Kapur has never depicted an illiterate character in her novel. No character of her wonders in the rural area or farm as she has never depicted any character that has from rural background. Sudarshan Sharma writes, Manju Kapur is one of the great women writers from India whose protagonists are women trying to keep balance constantly. Their hardships have made them strong and they struggle to set themselves free from the shackles of convention and various prejudices (Sharma …show more content…

Harish comes to meet her and furthermore to seek after her. He succeeds in convincing his adoration for Virmati. For the first time they enjoy physical joy. She conceives soon and has to abort the child by selling the gold bangles given to her by her grandfather. After this occurrence she again decides to cut her relationship with him. She goes to Siramaur, a hill station in Nahan to be a pricipal of Pratibha Kanya Vidyalaya. She teaches family household and English Literature to class IX and X. Virmati very much enjoys being in Nahan. It is most likely her best period. There she enjoys a free life like a honey bee and tastes honey of her life. Her Her search for identity ends here. She needs to manage everything by herself. Here she has no friends and family. She achieves the status of female autonomy. Virmati finds in Nahan a 'room of one's own'. Veena Singh states that, "in Virmati there struck the head and the heart, physical and moral, Virmati gives way to her heart and body" (Singh 168). But destiny has written something else for her as Harish comes here to meet her. She meets him secretly at nights. The trustee of the school finds out her guilty so she needs to abandon her job as she has lost employees' confidence. She decides to go to Shantiniketan , but on her way she meets a friend of Harish. He calls Harish at her home. She marries Harish and becomes

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