LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:7 July 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)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Social Criticism in the Novels of Anita Nair

Sanjay Kumar, M A., M Phil. and NET

Abstract

Change is the law of nature. Anita Nair’s novels Ladies Coupe (2001) and Mistress (2005) project women’s subjugation and their suppression in contemporary Indian society. It is a matter of great regret that even in this era of the twenty-first century; women are not given the freedom that men enjoy in the male dominated society. The objective of the research paper is to study the feminist literature and to examine the displacement of women through their humiliation. The aim of the research paper is to delineate how the women are no longer in the mood to bear this burden of traditionalism. They are in a mood of revolt against this patriarchal social set up of society. They don’t want to follow the trodden path, but know very well how to make their own path. Social, cultural and religious aspects of traditional society are challenged which cause the change in the norms of social institutions. Through these changes, clash between old and new ideologies is clearly noticeable in the research paper.

Social Criticism

Social criticism has been part and parcel of literature. Man as a social being, lives in society; being a part of it, all his activities, directly or indirectly, are related to society. Literature is created by man and cannot exist without society. Society is the environment in which literature breathes. Literary history is divided into different ages because literature of every age has some special characteristics. So, by studying the literature of different ages, some common characteristics of the concerned age can be found and by interpreting those characteristics, a fairly complete picture of the concerned age can be drawn. Literature shows both the good and bad sides of the society, criticizes and appreciates them and this pattern may be termed as social criticism. On this ground, social criticism is the critique of society.

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Sanjay Kumar, M A., M Phil. and NET
Research Scholar, M D U Rohtak
Haryana (India)
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