This is the condition of many Indian wives who silently swallow the pain, become tough by accepting life as it comes. This paper is an attempt to bring into light the dreadful agony of the protagonists in the novel “The Space Between Us” by Thrity Umrigar an Indian American novelists, who mirrors the suffering of a wife in the hands of a dread full husband, who’s marriage was once based on love, ended up with pain, when the true colours of him are exposed.
Keywords: Physical Abuse, Domestic Violence, Suppression, Pain, Agony and Violence. **************
From the very beginning “Women” who constitute half of the world’s population are paradoxically not treated on par with men in all spheres of human activity. They are oppressed, suppressed …show more content…
(Manu, Manusmruthi, 148)
Women are not allowed to exist outside male defining boundaries. Indian women were defined and restrained by male boundaries. Excessive endurance and series of adjustments she makes in her life faithfully and obediently are her admired qualities. Her individual self has very little recognition in the patriarchal society and so self-effacement is her normal way of life. In the words of Mary Ann Fergusson, in her book Images of Women in Literature, 1973, pp. 4-5, opines:
“....in every age woman has been seen primarily as mother, wife, mistress, and as sex object – their roles in relationship to men!” (Fergusson:4-5)
The images of woman in Indian civilization, culture and mythology are as diverse as the geographical, historical and other influences that have shaped them .The classical Hindu wife has to conform to the concept embodied in the famous “Sloka” Grihini, Sachivah, Sakhi, MithahPriya-Shishyalalite kala Vindu; meaning that as a wife women has many roles to play .she must not only be a wife but also a counsellor, the play mate to the
Keywords: Physical Abuse, Domestic Violence, Suppression, Pain, Agony and Violence. **************
From the very beginning “Women” who constitute half of the world’s population are paradoxically not treated on par with men in all spheres of human activity. They are oppressed, suppressed …show more content…
(Manu, Manusmruthi, 148)
Women are not allowed to exist outside male defining boundaries. Indian women were defined and restrained by male boundaries. Excessive endurance and series of adjustments she makes in her life faithfully and obediently are her admired qualities. Her individual self has very little recognition in the patriarchal society and so self-effacement is her normal way of life. In the words of Mary Ann Fergusson, in her book Images of Women in Literature, 1973, pp. 4-5, opines:
“....in every age woman has been seen primarily as mother, wife, mistress, and as sex object – their roles in relationship to men!” (Fergusson:4-5)
The images of woman in Indian civilization, culture and mythology are as diverse as the geographical, historical and other influences that have shaped them .The classical Hindu wife has to conform to the concept embodied in the famous “Sloka” Grihini, Sachivah, Sakhi, MithahPriya-Shishyalalite kala Vindu; meaning that as a wife women has many roles to play .she must not only be a wife but also a counsellor, the play mate to the