LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 20:2 February 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Resilience of Women: Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terror and
Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters

Dr. S. Latha Venkateswari

Abstract

Patriarchal society makes women undergo mental traumas right from their birth. While few women survive the odds, others end up in losing their lives. Women who endure sufferings either become mentally deranged or lose their traditional values. The two women writers, Shashi Deshpande in The Dark Holds No Terror and Bharati Mukherjee in Desirable Daughters, focus on how the patriarchal society forces the women protagonists Sarita and Tara respectively to lose their psyche as a consequence of their attempt to survive. Yet, the urge to endure agony makes them empowered and brings them back to life. Besides, the writers portray how the power of Indian roots strengthens the women characters to resolve the crisis in their married lives

Keywords: Shashi Deshpande, The Dark Holds No Terror, Bharati Mukherjee, Desirable Daughters, Subaltern, Patriarchal society, Myth, Psyche, Empowerment, Trauma, Indian roots

Introduction

Women writers generally share a same mental framework when it comes to the portrayal of women’s sufferings. Their aim is to alert the society about the threats surrounding the human lives, which people can overcome easily when there is understanding, cooperation and respect between men and women. Women writers analyse a variety of issues in the lives of women to highlight the fact that societal practices should do away with the practice of oppression and suppression of women.

A comparative study of two women writers always throws a fresh insight into handling women related issues effectively. Shashi Deshpande in The Dark Holds No Terror and Bharati Mukherjee in Desirable Daughters have dealt with how a woman’s psyche breaks down in the event of subjugation at different phases of her lifetime. Shashi’s Sarita and Bharati’s Tara emerge successful despite the odds that they face in their lives. This in turn, proves the fact that the sufferings make women strive hard to get empowerment. Interestingly, the two women writers have overcome the barriers of women by excelling in their chosen fields.

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Dr. S. Latha Venkateswari
M.A., M.Phil., M.Ed., PGDTS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Government College of Technology
(Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai)
Coimbatore – 641013
drlathagct@gmail.com
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