LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 20:5 May 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Portrayal of Women by Dr. Mu. Va. and Tagore

J. Kavithanjali, MBA, MLIsc., Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

This article is an attempt to comparing the national writers, represents their culture through their writers and focus on the depiction of women in their fictional world. Both Tagore and Dr. Mu. Va. concentrates on the importance of mother tongue and women’s education through their literary creations, humanistically and optimistically projects their view about women.

Keywords: Dr. Mu. Va., Rabindranath Tagore, Optimistic Perspectives, Humanism, Women’s education, Cultural values, Domination.

Comparative Literature is “the comparison of one literature with another or others” (Weisstein 23), but Van Tieghem points out that Comparative Literature aims primarily at the works of various literatures in their interrelationship H. H. Henry Remak points out that “National Literature treats questions confined to one national literature; Comparative Literature normally deals with problems involving two different literatures” (P 14). Even though Van Tieghem considers the study of literature within a nation as national literature, comparatists like Ulrich Weisstein are of the view that even writers belonging to the same nation can be compared. That is why a simple attempt is aimed at comparing two national writers, Tagore and Dr. Mu. Va. Rabindranath Tagore represents Bengali culture through his writings while Dr. Mu. Va. depicts Tamil culture through his writings. The primary focus of this paper is on the depiction of women in their writings.

Both Tagore and Mu. Va. not only stress the importance of the mother tongue but also give importance to women’s education through their literary creations in all respects. In both these writers one can see a synthesis of Western and Eastern culture and both are found giving importance to women’s problems and consider woman as the source of inspiration to man. Both are not only humanistic but also optimistic in their views about women. One can easily find out that in both Dr. Mu. Va. and Tagore, there are only heroines and no heroes. Eradication of literary among women is the first idea one can find in both the writers for both are the opinion that illiteracy will, no doubt, bring misfortune to women and education alone can help women to solve the problems.

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J. Kavithanjali, MBA, MLIsc., Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Library and Information Science
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai – 625 021
shivakavitha1111@gmail.com
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