CRY, THE PEACOCK: PORTRAYAL OF FEMININE AND MASCULINE DOCTRINES

ABSTRACT

Contemporary women value individualism and persist to safeguard it. The sensitively apprehensive, socially, vibrant surroundings often turn out of be lethal to the establishment and progress of strong interpersonal relationships. Deprived of the sense of individuality the majority of the women feel psychologically debilitated to face life. Unable to resist the assault of the external world, they waft towards solitude, seclusion, obsession, or death. Female marginality, psychin  and spiritual despondency, wrecked marital relationship, concealed sexuality or the disillusioned endeavors of establishing individualism are some of the tribulations touched upon by women writers like Anita Desai. Anita Desai is one of the most powerful contemporary Indian novelists in English. She is concerned with the inner world of her characters. She tries to look for the deep desires, emotions and feelings felt by her characters and shown them as the influencing and conditioned by complex social milieu. She basically portrays the disparity in temperament as affecting the man women relationship. Mostly women are culturally as well as emotionally dependent on man and many disruption in relationship proves to be a loss of self. It is through ones relationship that one evaluates his/her worth.

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