Role of a woman in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve
J.RANJITH KUMAR
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Priyadarshini Engineering College
Vaniyambadi, Vellore. Dt.
E-mail: rnkumarenglish@gmail.com
Abstract This paper highlights the Role of a woman in Indian context in the Hindu family circles. A girl after her maturity is getting married and goes to live with her husband. She is beard children; remain in the kitchen, and implicitly obey her partner. Kamala Markandaya works on the lower middle class women. She portrays the poor conditions of these sacrificing women. She boldly asserts that these helpless victims of nature and men need economic independence education and mental experience before they get married. She wants this …show more content…
The reading public is expected to an automatic change of hearts and minds. The ruling administrates have to play the leaks and loopholes of the society, thereby noosing the dominant-male –members to bring out a change or social reform in the society by their legal means and laws. These views are imbedded in the hearts of the women writers.
First, the valuation of the woman protagonist Rukmani’s experience is analytically examined in the light of the other in ‘Nectar in a Sieve’. It goes on to rediscover the aim and intention of the author. Rukmani becomes of six children in the novel. Being a mother, she takes utmost care of children, teaches them as what she knows. She thinks: “When my child is ready, ‘I thought now, “I will teach him too; and I practiced harder than ever lest my fingers should loss their skill”. (Nectar in a sieve, p. 11)
She is ambitious to bring up her children in the right direction. Though she was born to the president of the village, she is readily accepting a life-partner from a lesser-income group. At first she was sad, but, she proves to be faithful wife as well as mother till the …show more content…
It is adjusting and becoming a brave role model. It is not on the first night but later that she comes to love him as a true and dutiful wife. She is faithfully devoted to her husband and according to Indian traditions, does not call his name but addresses him only as ‘husband: It was my husband who woke me-my husband, whom I will call him Nathan for that was his name, although in all the years of our marriage I never called him that, for it is not meet for woman to address her husband except as husband. It is the deep-rooted custom of the Hindu-family that the life should never pronounce the name of the husband throughout the married life. Even if the situation warrants, the Hindu wife might write his name or ark someone who knows the name of the husband to say it to
J.RANJITH KUMAR
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Priyadarshini Engineering College
Vaniyambadi, Vellore. Dt.
E-mail: rnkumarenglish@gmail.com
Abstract This paper highlights the Role of a woman in Indian context in the Hindu family circles. A girl after her maturity is getting married and goes to live with her husband. She is beard children; remain in the kitchen, and implicitly obey her partner. Kamala Markandaya works on the lower middle class women. She portrays the poor conditions of these sacrificing women. She boldly asserts that these helpless victims of nature and men need economic independence education and mental experience before they get married. She wants this …show more content…
The reading public is expected to an automatic change of hearts and minds. The ruling administrates have to play the leaks and loopholes of the society, thereby noosing the dominant-male –members to bring out a change or social reform in the society by their legal means and laws. These views are imbedded in the hearts of the women writers.
First, the valuation of the woman protagonist Rukmani’s experience is analytically examined in the light of the other in ‘Nectar in a Sieve’. It goes on to rediscover the aim and intention of the author. Rukmani becomes of six children in the novel. Being a mother, she takes utmost care of children, teaches them as what she knows. She thinks: “When my child is ready, ‘I thought now, “I will teach him too; and I practiced harder than ever lest my fingers should loss their skill”. (Nectar in a sieve, p. 11)
She is ambitious to bring up her children in the right direction. Though she was born to the president of the village, she is readily accepting a life-partner from a lesser-income group. At first she was sad, but, she proves to be faithful wife as well as mother till the …show more content…
It is adjusting and becoming a brave role model. It is not on the first night but later that she comes to love him as a true and dutiful wife. She is faithfully devoted to her husband and according to Indian traditions, does not call his name but addresses him only as ‘husband: It was my husband who woke me-my husband, whom I will call him Nathan for that was his name, although in all the years of our marriage I never called him that, for it is not meet for woman to address her husband except as husband. It is the deep-rooted custom of the Hindu-family that the life should never pronounce the name of the husband throughout the married life. Even if the situation warrants, the Hindu wife might write his name or ark someone who knows the name of the husband to say it to