Shobha De has been a dynamic personality of nearly three decades; she has been the reigning deity of the written world. For years she has defined what society has been about and focused on the world of man and matters.
De was born in Maharashtra on January 7, 1948; 7:21:00; 5:30 (E of GMT); 72E50; 18N58. According to Phyllis Chubb her fiery ascendant Sagittarius, as an odd numbered sign, sets the stage for an independent, open-minded, frank, generous, sympathetic, and truthful and just one individual. (Chubb: 2002:issue03)
She has thrived on a well as survive the Polaris responses – the highest praise and the vilest criticism. Given to controversies, her literary status as a serious writer with social consciousness has been subjected to endless …show more content…
The novel depicts the lives of six women of Santa Maria High School. Applying the proposition that the psychological health of a character is defined by the character’s actions and behavior, all the six women discussed in this paper are found buried deep in this past. Madhumalti Adhikari discusses at length the equation of power in the novel. The analyses the work of De in respect of the other writers and comes to the conclusion that De, like other feminist writers, is concerned with the alignment of power that exerts physical, political, social and economic control over a woman in order to fragment her. De once claimed in The Hindustan Times Magazine. ‘I write with a great deal of empathy towards women. Without waving the feminist Flag, I feel very strongly about the woman’s situation’.
The six women – Swati, Rashmi, Reema, Surekha, Aparna and Noor of Snapshots-are stuck deep in their destructive …show more content…
They resort to unrealistic solutions which, instead of relieving their anxiety, alienate them from their inner selves. As a result, development towards self-fulfillment gets sealed. Viewed on the basis of personality concepts of the Third Force Psychologists, Swati, Noor, Rashmi and other weak-willed women like Reema, Surekha and Aparna are fit into the group of sick personalities.
The glamorous singer-actress Swati of Snapshots is also one of the neurotic women characters of Shobha De. The sympathetic sarcasm with which De treats the neurotic drives of Anjali of Socialite Evenings is replaced with disgust in treating Swati’s compulsive need for forging an identity through power and success. Whereas Anjali’s obsessive desire for men and money are the result of her frustration with marriage and her adolescent concept of identity, Swati’s mad pursuit after power and success is a result of her insecure and inferior feelings, with which she has been raised during her
De was born in Maharashtra on January 7, 1948; 7:21:00; 5:30 (E of GMT); 72E50; 18N58. According to Phyllis Chubb her fiery ascendant Sagittarius, as an odd numbered sign, sets the stage for an independent, open-minded, frank, generous, sympathetic, and truthful and just one individual. (Chubb: 2002:issue03)
She has thrived on a well as survive the Polaris responses – the highest praise and the vilest criticism. Given to controversies, her literary status as a serious writer with social consciousness has been subjected to endless …show more content…
The novel depicts the lives of six women of Santa Maria High School. Applying the proposition that the psychological health of a character is defined by the character’s actions and behavior, all the six women discussed in this paper are found buried deep in this past. Madhumalti Adhikari discusses at length the equation of power in the novel. The analyses the work of De in respect of the other writers and comes to the conclusion that De, like other feminist writers, is concerned with the alignment of power that exerts physical, political, social and economic control over a woman in order to fragment her. De once claimed in The Hindustan Times Magazine. ‘I write with a great deal of empathy towards women. Without waving the feminist Flag, I feel very strongly about the woman’s situation’.
The six women – Swati, Rashmi, Reema, Surekha, Aparna and Noor of Snapshots-are stuck deep in their destructive …show more content…
They resort to unrealistic solutions which, instead of relieving their anxiety, alienate them from their inner selves. As a result, development towards self-fulfillment gets sealed. Viewed on the basis of personality concepts of the Third Force Psychologists, Swati, Noor, Rashmi and other weak-willed women like Reema, Surekha and Aparna are fit into the group of sick personalities.
The glamorous singer-actress Swati of Snapshots is also one of the neurotic women characters of Shobha De. The sympathetic sarcasm with which De treats the neurotic drives of Anjali of Socialite Evenings is replaced with disgust in treating Swati’s compulsive need for forging an identity through power and success. Whereas Anjali’s obsessive desire for men and money are the result of her frustration with marriage and her adolescent concept of identity, Swati’s mad pursuit after power and success is a result of her insecure and inferior feelings, with which she has been raised during her