LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:9 September 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Retelling of the Concept of Widowhood through the Stories of B. L. Gautam

Aditi, Research Scholar


B. L. Gautam
Courtesy: http://www.kemmannu.com/index.php?action=highlights&type=3424

Abstract

The present paper makes an effort to bring out the agony, pain and deep-seated desires lurking somewhere deep in the corner of their hearts. With the beginning of twentieth century and a rise in the social movements, the pleas of the widows were also taken into account. In the present paper, I have taken the short stories, “Mohammed A Mechanic and Mary A Maid” and “Easy Savitri” written by B. L. Gautam. In both the stories the women protagonists are widows and the fate they experience are somehow the result of their state of being ‘widows’. However, the stories I am dealing with are contrasting in social set-up where one is the story of modern day city the other one is dealing with the rural framework. The stories are quite metaphorical as the names of its characters are taken from mythology who were chaste and totally devoted to their husbands. Where Mary is depicted as a maid in one story and Savitri is shown as a whore. So, these women characters are shown in complete contrast to the images already existing in the psyche of the human beings. The stories are a well thought out description of the lives of these widows in their consecutive backgrounds giving readers a peep into their psyche and their designed lives.

Key Words: lurking, pleas, protagonists, metaphorical.

Difficult Processes of Developing an Identity

As women we have all gone through a diverse body of experiences. We have laughed and cried together on several occasions, we have grown up hoping the world would change for the better. If on one hand we have been thankful for the privileges life has accorded to us, we are equally conscious of the difficulties woman undergoes in the process of forging her identity. There is a definite bonding and empathy we share in reading, relating and interpreting women. In the course of my study, I have come across literature that is probing the many anxieties and frustrations in women’s lives. It is also striving to recreate and rewrite a possibly new script of commitment and liberation, of affirmation and intervention. This paper seeks to pull those who have been pushed away from the centre by a constant politics of power and exclusion into a landscape of silence and seclusion. I am going to put my point forward with the analysis of two short stories namely, “Mohammed A Mechanic and Mary A Maid” and “Easy Savitri” written by B.L.Gautam.

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Aditi, Research Scholar
Department of English
Maharshi Dayanand University
Rohtak
Haryana
India
hoodaditi@gmail.com
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