Volume II Special Issue IV April 2022

Name of Author : Paulsy Diana P & Dr. V Lizy

Title of the paper : Breaching the Archetypes in Manju Kapurs’ A Married Woman

Abstract: Manju Kapur speaks, the possibility of independence a woman could possess, in her novels. Her novel A Married Woman has a revolutionary plot and remarkable theme, where a female protagonists’ passion to achieve love, lesbianism and life itself in an eloquent way. The protagonist seeks to work, as she is an educated women, like kapurs’ most the female protagonists’ are and she is thoughtful and rational. Like any beings of the society, she too wants to create her own identity and project her own individuality. But that’s not what traditional society wants of her. Anywhere she goes and anything she does, questions the ways of tradition and culture. She marries to find reciprocating love, instead she gets back patriarchal ridicule. She finds love in another women, for which heterosexism acts as a hindrance. She wants to be independent, yet the traditional duties assigned to a women calls for her at desperate times. The protagonist is torn between her individual thinking and gender biased social constructs. This paper brings out the turmoil faced by modern women, who wants to break free of traditional social archetypes.

Keywords : Structural Functionalism, Freedom, Archetypes, New Woman, Oppression

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Page Number : 185-189