The Encounters of Sudha, As a Protagonist, Between the Worlds of Fancy and Harsh Reality with Reference to Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “Sister Of My Heart”.
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
“Women are the wealth of India and they have contributed in almost every field and made country feel proud at every occasion. However, another reality of Indian society is that there is systematic discrimination and neglect of women in India”. Are women able to achieve fulfillment and actualize and experience wider horizons? Women once again asks herself the question “Is this my life forever? She confronts the reality that youth and womanhood have started to recede into the realm of what once was, what could have been, and she is left with nostalgia, with a past which is largely fantasy and a present which is harsh reality. Her life appears to have been one of engaging in multiple activities without feeling productive; of being many roles without being herself; of putting on many masks and of being at the beck and call of all and of performing given roles. This paper is a modest attempt to bring to light the struggle faced by Sudha a protagonist of “Sister of My Heart” who desires to live a real life.
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Saktheeswar V. B.
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