LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:12 December 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
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A Temporal Freedom of Women in Sultana’s Dream and
The Yellow Wall Paper: Through the Lens of a Critical Reading

Tazin Ahmed, M.A. in English

Sultana's Dream

Abstract

Sultana’s Dream and The Yellow Wall Paper are written by two different writers based on two different contexts – one in pre-independence India and another in pre-World War I, and yet there is an interesting thread that connects these two writings. This essay closely examines the two unique pieces of writing by two women writers - Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Rokeya Sakhwat Hossain, to illustrate how the protagonists of the two writings are culturally, socially, economically different, yet how they are same.

Key Words: Freedom, Imprisonment, Women, Oppression, Sultana’s Dream, The Yellow Wall Paper

Confined in Rooms

The Yellow Wall Paper

In both Sultana’s Dream and The Yellow Wall Paper, women are confined in rooms or in ‘jail’ as created by John in The Yellow Wall Paper and by Sultana’s husband in Sultana’s Dream. In both the writings, the protagonists want to enjoy the flavor of freedom, either by ‘dead papers’ that is by writing journal, or by having a utopian dream of breaking away from the four walls of the zenana.

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Tazin Ahmed, M.A. in English
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