The fate of most Indian women in a male dominating society is that they have no liberty to express their feelings. The dramatist establishes the concept that the plight of the Indian women is such that they are doomed to be always at the mercy of the men folk. Right from the ancient days, till the present, with certain exceptions, the situation has remained the same. Even Chitralekha, in spite of her being the daughter-in-law of the Bharatha family, is not an exception. Like most women in India, she too is in the same pathetic situation. Chitralekha pays the cost of her life to put her point forward and Swarnalata kills herself by bits just to make her husband satisfied. Chitralekha is not an individual, but a representative of the early twentieth
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It exposes male chauvinism and the oppression of women and the great injustice done to them by men and patriarchal culture. The play mocks at and questions the unjust values of our patriarchal society. It questions the patriarchal moral codes which believe in the loyalty of a woman to her husband but not in the fidelity of a man to his wife. The ethos of the Indian society does not permit women, to violate the norms of patriarchy in their pre or post-marital phases. Gender discrimination is the basis of all kinds of domination and subjugation amongst the sexes. The marginal position of women in the Indian society as a result has become an integral part of the socio-cultural identity of the …show more content…
In the tight noose of traditional marriage, Rani finds it very hard to have healthy marital and social interaction and articulate her grievances and grudges. As Rani is locked up like a caged bird, she longs to have flight and freedom from the cruel clutches of Appanna. On the sexual plane, she is neglected; on the physical she is bullied and beaten; on the emotional she is crushed; on the intellectual she is hushed up, and on the social she is almost ex-communicated. As a result, she is left with no voice and choice as a dignified member of human
It exposes male chauvinism and the oppression of women and the great injustice done to them by men and patriarchal culture. The play mocks at and questions the unjust values of our patriarchal society. It questions the patriarchal moral codes which believe in the loyalty of a woman to her husband but not in the fidelity of a man to his wife. The ethos of the Indian society does not permit women, to violate the norms of patriarchy in their pre or post-marital phases. Gender discrimination is the basis of all kinds of domination and subjugation amongst the sexes. The marginal position of women in the Indian society as a result has become an integral part of the socio-cultural identity of the …show more content…
In the tight noose of traditional marriage, Rani finds it very hard to have healthy marital and social interaction and articulate her grievances and grudges. As Rani is locked up like a caged bird, she longs to have flight and freedom from the cruel clutches of Appanna. On the sexual plane, she is neglected; on the physical she is bullied and beaten; on the emotional she is crushed; on the intellectual she is hushed up, and on the social she is almost ex-communicated. As a result, she is left with no voice and choice as a dignified member of human