LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Different Phases of Women in Shashi Deshpande’s Novel Moving On

B. Subashini, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar
R. Krishnamoorthy, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

The Indian society has gone through a lot of changes in recent times regarding women’s position. New situations demand women’s active participation in various roles. While making choices women experience various problems, which create opportunity for women to transcend their traditional role. This is well captured by Indian women writers and portrayed in their novels. The present paper is motivated by such prevailing conditions and particularly focuses on the developmental phases of women in Shashi Deshpande’s novel, Moving On (2004) (here after referred to as M.O).

Introduction

Shashi Deshpande as a writer takes it as her concern to set a direction for the modern Indian women to gain confidence to make her own choices. She can at best be called an articulator of women who are caught at the crossroads of change in a society, which is under going the birth pangs of transition from tradition to modernity. Her attempt to give an honest portrayal of changes in women’s position with all their sufferings, disappointments and frustrations makes her novel unique. She concentrates on four major issues that are indispensable for the liberation of woman: education, financial dependence, control over her sexuality and the moral choice.

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Ms. B. Subashini, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Assistant Professor in English
Department of Science and Humanities
Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology
Coimbatore 641 010
Tamil Nadu
India
suba80_senthil@yahoo.co.in

R. Krishnamoorthy, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in English
Government Arts College
Stone House Hill (P.O)
Udhagamandalam – 643 002
Tamil Nadu
India
rkgacooty@gmail.com
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