Feminism and Marriage in the Novels of Anita Desai

Abstract

Women always face many problems in their life in various ways. Women were suppressed and ill treated by the opposite sex. Women were slaves to them and under their control. They didn’t have the liberty or equality. Women were not free to act on their own. Many illegal activities and cruelties were done to them. Education was refused to them but the suppression was broke out by some of the great women and they proved their power.

Naturally Literature is a reflection of life. It was evident through the works. Feminism was like a medium to speak about their problems and through their works the world came to know about their problem and so the feminism in India has flourished.

Anita Desai has been writing some of the best English language fiction in India for almost four decades. She’s been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize thrice and won the Sahitya Akademi Award, one of India’s most prestigious literary prizes, in 1978 for her second novel,Fire on the Mountain. Familial relationships and their evolution have been the main themes of Desai’s fiction. This paper deals with Feminism and Marriage in the novels of Anita Desai.