LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 9 September 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Treatment of Female Oppression - An Insight into Selected Stories of Chitra Divakaruni

Rajesh Bojan, M.A., M.Phil.

“I have always been scared of you” - Sylvia Plath

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Female Plight in All Cultures, Civilizations and Religions

Nothing could be as meaningful as the verse above. There could be no better line of expression than this. It is simple, yet strong in voicing the female plight. It is not just the summary of Sylvia Plath’s life, it is the testimony and collective voice of every woman living and dead.

Throughout history, no matter to what age, to what region and to what religion one belongs to, there has always been a current of events happening around us all the time flashing how women are being treated and exploited. It is certainly not new to us, what was actually experienced by women of those times are just what our contemporary women encounter. There has been a change only in the lifestyle, but human condition remains unchanged. She is just what she has always been all through the ages. No doubt she will always be the same.

Successful Writers Who Deal with Female Plight

Among many, only a handful of writers have been very successful in expressing the plight of women. Towering among them are names like Sylvia Plath, Kamala Das who have lived a life of suffering, which became the predominant raw material for their compositions. What else could be better than expressing ourselves, indeed, the highest degree of writing, the noblest expression of thought, is what we write about ourselves.

Chitra Divakaruni

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Rajesh Bojan, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor and Head
Department of English
Dr. R.V. Arts and Science College, Karamadai
Coimbatore – 641 104
Tamilnadu, India
rajeshbojan@gmail.com
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