The research paper aims to explore the elements of feminism in Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting. The paper seeks to study the work of Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting as a text of feminine writing and deals with number of problems that are faced by the women characters in the novel Lessons in Forgetting such as female feticide, gender discriminations, love and dependence on family members, and explains briefly how they overcome such problems to move on in their lives. As per the title, the lessons that were taught to women are forgotten only to lead the ensuing, happiest life. Feminism lies not on worries and depression but on happiness and expectations. Fighting against Patriarchal society has become old as women have paved their path to make
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Women are not anymore to suffer under the hands of patriarchal society. Moreover, women have become capable enough to create a world for them like how Meera and other female characters create a world of their own after the absence of their husbands. Nair was born in Shornur in the state of Kerala. She has written many novels and Lessons in Forgetting is one among them which has been taken for the movie adaptation and Nair has also written the dialogues and the screenplay which makes her to acquire National Film Award. This novel is piled with a story within a …show more content…
Ambi husband of Kala Chiti keeps on adoring her hair but not her and one day he abandons her because of incapable of bearing a child and chooses another woman to get married but Kala Chiti paves a new way and starts to live with Sarada.
I finally had a reason to leave him. Not even my father could fault me for this. I was the wronged wife. So I left him. Before I went, I cut my hair at the nape of my neck. I gave it to Ambi. A long braid woven with jasmine and kanakambaram. This is all you ever wanted of me. Keep it. And let me go, I said, walking out. (P 232)
The portrayal of female characters in the novel is the representation of a life within the life. They never quit their life even their husbands leave them rather they are capable enough to choose a better life. When men have reasons then women have options. When life gives heavenly happiness to live the patriarchal society looks forward for the happiness that they want. Nair has beautifully pictured that how women characters discover new life even when they are in hard
Women are not anymore to suffer under the hands of patriarchal society. Moreover, women have become capable enough to create a world for them like how Meera and other female characters create a world of their own after the absence of their husbands. Nair was born in Shornur in the state of Kerala. She has written many novels and Lessons in Forgetting is one among them which has been taken for the movie adaptation and Nair has also written the dialogues and the screenplay which makes her to acquire National Film Award. This novel is piled with a story within a …show more content…
Ambi husband of Kala Chiti keeps on adoring her hair but not her and one day he abandons her because of incapable of bearing a child and chooses another woman to get married but Kala Chiti paves a new way and starts to live with Sarada.
I finally had a reason to leave him. Not even my father could fault me for this. I was the wronged wife. So I left him. Before I went, I cut my hair at the nape of my neck. I gave it to Ambi. A long braid woven with jasmine and kanakambaram. This is all you ever wanted of me. Keep it. And let me go, I said, walking out. (P 232)
The portrayal of female characters in the novel is the representation of a life within the life. They never quit their life even their husbands leave them rather they are capable enough to choose a better life. When men have reasons then women have options. When life gives heavenly happiness to live the patriarchal society looks forward for the happiness that they want. Nair has beautifully pictured that how women characters discover new life even when they are in hard