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Cry, the Peacock: Portrayal of Feminine and Masculine Doctrines

2018; Volume: 3; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.22161/ijels.3.6.2

2456-7620

S.I. Gonzalez Perez,

South Asian Cinema and Culture

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."-Nora Ephron Contemporary women value individualism and persist to safeguard it.The sensitively apprehensive, socially vibrant surroundings often turn out to be lethal to the establishment and progress of strong interpersonal relationships.Deprived of a sense of individuality the majority of women feel psychologically debilitated to face life.Unable to resist the assault of the external world, they waft towards solitude, seclusion, obsession, or death.Female marginality, psychic and spiritual despondency, wrecked marital relationships, concealed sexuality or the disillusioned endeavors of establishing individualism are some of the tribulations touched upon by women writers like Anita Desai.Anita Desai is one of the most admired contemporary Indian novelists writing in English.She is more concerned with contemplation, passion, and consciousness.As Kanwar says, the trait of Desai's fiction is "to focus on the inner experience of life" (71).According to Desai, most marriages confirm to be blending of incompatibility.Men are pertinent to be rational and matter of fact while women are schmaltzy.Naturally they look at things in different ways and respond in a different way to identical situations.Anita Desai's novels are the manifesto of female predicament.Her obsession with the woman's private world, annoyance, and tornado rampant within her mind intensify her predicament.Desai's concern with the liberation of woman is found page after page in her novels.Human distinctiveness is usually linked to and defined by societal and cultural standards.When it comes to woman, she is defined only in relation to a man as she is deprived of an individuality of her own.It is easy to unshackle woman in a primeval societal composition even if she is uneducated but it is very hard to think of her freedom in a society which is moving forward at the path of evolution and civilization.But hearty appreciation to the Women's studies which are rising fast and paying consideration to the female predicament in a male subjugated set up.Woman has always been measured as an accomplice to man.No autonomous survival has been