Manju Kapur has explored the domestic violence against women in this novel. When Nisha stays at her aunt’s home, she feels that she is in her own home. Her aunt gives her motherly love and attention where she feels homely and attached to her. As Nisha was Mangli, which is considered as not good, everyone is concerned about her marriage. In Indian society, a Mangli is considered as destined to marry unfortunate, destined for misery, unless a similar Mangli could be found, with a similar fate and horoscope. For all these they need time. Nisha’s family needs time and education plays the gap-filling role for Nisha and her family. However, there were many opinions about the higher education of girls. In spite of being a woman, being a mother, Sona
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The suffocation and alienation force a woman inching towards her psychological freedom from age-old tradition and shackles of false morals and customs that make woman secondary to the man.
Manju Kapur’s fourth novel The Immigrant focuses on exploration of protagonist Nina and her journey towards own freedom from shackles of tradition and customs. It explores her journey from bondage towards freedom, but the journey was not too easy to complete. Nina is portrayed as suffering woman in the traditional society. In the beginning of the novel, she leads life as a spinster. Because of her father’s death Nina and her mother leads miserable life. Her lover who was a teacher cheats her. Due to traditional set up, both Nina and her mother suffer a lot.
When she gets married and migrates to Canada she faces social discrimination. Kapur has explored the distress of immigrants in the novel. Nina feels suffocated in Canada because of her loss of identity. Though she was teacher in India, she finds her degree has no value in Canada. She feels isolated in an alienated land. Because of her husband’s problem of premature ejaculation; she could not get fertilized. She feels incomplete without motherhood. Her husband stays out of home and she feels aliened due to new environment and new culture. She finds that she has no identity rather than immigrant wife which has no
The suffocation and alienation force a woman inching towards her psychological freedom from age-old tradition and shackles of false morals and customs that make woman secondary to the man.
Manju Kapur’s fourth novel The Immigrant focuses on exploration of protagonist Nina and her journey towards own freedom from shackles of tradition and customs. It explores her journey from bondage towards freedom, but the journey was not too easy to complete. Nina is portrayed as suffering woman in the traditional society. In the beginning of the novel, she leads life as a spinster. Because of her father’s death Nina and her mother leads miserable life. Her lover who was a teacher cheats her. Due to traditional set up, both Nina and her mother suffer a lot.
When she gets married and migrates to Canada she faces social discrimination. Kapur has explored the distress of immigrants in the novel. Nina feels suffocated in Canada because of her loss of identity. Though she was teacher in India, she finds her degree has no value in Canada. She feels isolated in an alienated land. Because of her husband’s problem of premature ejaculation; she could not get fertilized. She feels incomplete without motherhood. Her husband stays out of home and she feels aliened due to new environment and new culture. She finds that she has no identity rather than immigrant wife which has no