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Women Psyche: From Circumscribed Past to Liberated Present:
A Special Reference to Arabian Literature

Dr. Fahim Korasen kandi


Abstract

This paper attempts to bring a psychological transformation of women with reference to Arabian literature, this paper examines Arabian English literary works and through the years how women evolved their status of depiction in literature from circumscribed past to liberated present. Liberated women are those who challenges social norms in the search of the independence. Early literature women did not have the space to establish their identities as an individual they are always depicted and hide behind their familia duty as wife, sister and mother. the writers also did not show any gumption to bring women as their central character in any of their works they produced during that time, here comes the relevant of this paper, this paper examines how women came out form the shadow of men and established their own identity as a woman.

Keywords:Arabian literature, women, Psyche, Circumscribed past, liberated present, autonomous writers, resistant readers.

Introduction

In the past if one examines, literary works produced in Arabian English literature , one could see women end up the as mere shadows of men characters, women’s likes and dislikes were circumscribed by the likes and dislikes of men , most of the women characters were confined to acquiesce the order of the men and their domination over women were widely seen in all literary works produced during that era, and readers also entertain such type of narration only . Women’ roles were often confined to domestic sphere, with societal expectations, limiting their opportunities to depict as an independent woman characters. This circumscribed past has influenced their mental health, identity, and self-perception.

For centuries women were not allowed to come out of the stereotypes characters as lovable mothers , generous sister, obedient wife , “ take me all womanly compassion and fill me with manly cruelty” ( Macbeth) since time memorial all the writers depicts women as the synonym of the compassion and men as the synonym of the cruelty in this quote of Shakespeare’s work clearly pointing out woman were always put into a so called definition of the society that’s why lady Macbeth says take all the womanly compassion and fill me with manly cruelty, these all are pointing out the narrow attitude of men towards women in literature .


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Dr. Fahim Korasen kandi
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia
fahimkandl@su.edu.sa

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