LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:6 June 2018
ISSN 1930-2940

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Marital Incompatibility in Anita Desai’s Voices in the City and
Where Shall We Go this Summer?

Ms. B. Vijayalakshmi, M.A., M.Phil., SET


Courtesy: https://www.amazon.com/Voices-City-Anita-Desai/dp/8122200532

Abstract

Marriage is always pictured as a commodity which encapsulates a period of companionship, support and sexual fulfillment for men. But, it is portrayed as a sacrificing factor, commitment, self-destruction, security and dependence for women. Women always have been associated with the words mental stress, trauma, and devotion, adjustable and deplore. Marriage is a tradition in Indian society and the marital women’s sufferings and psychological issues have been the subject of some Indian women writers. Focusing on Indian women, their mental stress, issues with their new family and the conservative ethics of the Indian patriarchal society are the major themes in the field of Indian Literature. Kate Millet says: “Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: it is worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.” (27). Women are confined in four walls in the name of security. Throughout the life, they have to depend someone. She has many roles to play.

Keywords: Anita Desai, Voices in the City, Where Shall We Go this Summer?, mental stress, trauma, alienation, frustration.

Female Characters of Anita Desai

This article pictures the female characters of Anita Desai and their psychological issues in a patriarchal society with reference to Voices in the City (1965) and Where Shall We Go this Summer? (1975). Desai began an innovative era of psychological issues of women and gave a new phase to the world of novel writing in English. Through her novels she projects the pain and sufferings of women in a male dominating and conservative society. The women characters of Desai undergo a mental destruction and suffer from failures and frustrations. The reason for their mental destruction is their hypersensitive nature and careless husbands. Their restricted surroundings and inattentive spouses force the women to take actions mutely and violently. This results in incompatible life between husband and wife.

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Ms. B. Vijayalakshmi, M.A., M.Phil., SET
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Srimad Andavan Arts & Science College
7 Nelson Road, Thiruvanai Kovil
Tiruchirappalli 620005
Tamil Nadu
India
vijismiling.bala@gmail.com

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