Our Lady Of Alice Bhatti Analysis

Chapter 1: Introduction
All human beings possess a desire to communicate and connect with others and the extent to which language is used by them to establish these connections varies. At one side of the continuum the verbally disinhibited people give a quick expression of their feelings and thoughts but on the contrary the verbally inhibited persons are not quick to express their thoughts, they wait to express themselves, they are reluctant of giving quick response if they disagree, they have the tendency to hold, verbal inhibitions are more extensive than emotional expressiveness, because disinhibitors are generally as speedy and chatty in imparting their feelings and decisions about convictions and beliefs as they are in communicating their emotions and these vary from responsiveness as that develop is generally explained. Women are always considered inferior to men in a patriarchal society. They are always hesitant to speak about their needs and rights which they are mostly deprived of, and if any of them try to hold her head high up and surpass the hindrances coming across her way she has to suffer the consequences. The same issue is discussed by Mohammad Hanif in his second novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti. …show more content…
Despite the fact that the story lays the satire heavily yet it is pretty worthy of exploring predicament of the society. The prose, both tragic and comic presents the attitudes of people towards the people of low castes and particularly about women. Alice is a part of new generation of urban South East Asia, where versatility is no more a stigma and is quite acceptable and satisfactory. Alice’s father complains of people particularly of Muslims towards them that Muslims can take their services for cleaning sewers but after that they whine that they are stinky. The choohras have same situation in Pakistan as that the people of low castes have in India, perhaps more