LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 19:12 December 2019
ISSN 1930-2940

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P.B. Shelley and Bharathidasan on the Miserable Lot of Women in Society:
A Comparative Study

Dr. C. Ramya, M.B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

The paper throws light on the vexation of the poets Shelley and Bharathidasan after witnessing the miserable plight of women being treated in the society women in general and treated in low esteem both in the West and East. Both the poets share the sufferings of women at home, domestic slavery and the passive tolerance they women endurance, in spite of the atrocities inflicted against them across the ages. Money, longing passion to amass materialistic benefits and forced arranged marriages are considered major reasons for the sufferings of women in the society. The social, cultural taboo framed by patriarchal society in India forces women to get away from the narrow outlook by encouraging widow re-marriage. The poets believe that education and economic security are considered as remedial steps to redeem these pathetic women out of their miserable plight.

Keywords: P.B. Shelley, Bharathidasan, Atrocities on women, materialistic benefit, encouragement, education, economic security, remedial steps, miserable plight, widow remarriage, perceptive, consciousness.

Comparison is a source of knowledge, a method of inquiry and a technique used by all scientists and artists. As H.H. Remak puts it, Comparative Literature is nothing but the study of literature beyond the confines of one particular country and the study of relationship between literature on the one hand and other areas of knowledge and belief such as arts, science and religion on the other. It is a kind of literary venture to raise the spirit of nationalism, contributing as much as possible to the development of academic criticism at an international level. A Comparative study of literatures across the cultures establishes the unity of literatures and as Rene Welleck has put it, “all literatures should be studied from an international perceptive with a consciousness of the unity of the literary creation and experience”. According to him, “literature is one as art and humanity are one” (P 50). No doubt, the universality of great literatures does significantly penetrate the deeper layers of a given culture. It is essential that in all of our studies of literature, our perspectives should be widened, and our local and provincial sentiments should be suppressed. As one goes deeper, one realizes that great writers are not of one age, or of one culture; they are for all the time and of the entire community. That is why a comparative analysis on the works of Shelley and Bharathidasan representing occidental and oriental cultures sounds really a rewarding experience for any literary comparatist.

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Dr. C. Ramya, M.B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Asst. Professor
Department of English
E.M.G. Yadava College for Women
Madurai – 625 014
Tamil Nadu, India
rramyachelliah@gmail.com
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