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Proceedings of National Seminar on Postmodern Literary Theory and Literature , Jan. 27-28, 2012, Nandedgreat ambition and ultimate goal of ayoung girl. Simone de Beauvoirpoints out that“Marriage is the destinytraditionally offered towomen by the society”.She has to perform the roleof a happy and satisfied wife. Thisidea is expressed in one of KamalaDas’s poems entitled ‘Suicide’ButI must PoseI must pretendI must act the roleOf a happy womanHappy wife.The root cause of all thediscriminations and bias that womenface in their social, cultural, politicaland economic life rests in religion.It all starts from the religion andthen stems outward. Christianity isthe first religion which emphasisthis point that it is because ofwoman Sin, suffering and deathstarted. In our holy books Bible,Ramayana, Mahabharata womenalways portrayed negatively.When the independencemovement began, men and womencame together for the first time.Reformers like Raja RammohanRoy, Mahatma Gandhi andAnnasaheb Karve appeared on thesocial and political scene. Aftergetting education, women began torealize the extent of injusticeinflicted upon them. Literacy playsa dominant role in the improvementof women’s status.After independence, manyIndian women novelists have raisedtheir voice against the exploitationof women. Many men novelistshave also portrayed womencharacters with great sympathy andunderstanding. It was started bySimone de Beauvoir in ‘The SecondSex’ (1949) and gained momentumin the 1960s. In the postindependenceperiod women’sliberation has gradually come aboutthrough education. Educationbecame available to the masses andit changed the attitude of both menand women towards life. Moderneducated woman is no longer adocile or meek but a career-oriented.In this post-modern era, women inspite of her career, she has to dohousehold work for the family. DeBeauvoir rightly says that even afterthe attainment of equality, women’sideational world would remaindifferent.References :1. Webster’s Dictionary, 1987Ed.2. Oxford Advanced Learner’sDictionary, Seventh Edition.3. Simone de Beauvoir, ‘TheSecond Sex’ Vintage Books1989.4. Kamala Das, ‘My Story’(New Delhi : Sterling, 1977)375 PLTL-2012: ISBN 978-81-920120-0-1
Proceedings of National Seminar on Postmodern Literary Theory and Literature , Jan. 27-28, 2012, NandedSuppression of a Women--Sheetal JeevannavarM.A. III SemJ.S.S. College, Dharwad (KA)Introduction :We seen from 19 th century thewomen’s suffers lot and what is theconditions of women’s physical & &Mental health and When the womenstarted against male. And when thefeminism was started all that have seen.And what are the drawbacks of thewomen in those days all are seen.Feminist Theories:Feminism is “basic lies asociological ideology” It is nothing thebasically a life connected movement inthe world. And it is a westerncontribution to the knowledge and thefeminist theory 3 important stages.i) Feminism stages i it starts from1840-1880ii) Feminists state (1880-1920)iii) After 1920’s :in this stage thefeminist writer they left imitation &degeneracy became protestant. Theyachieved an autonomy on their writing.When women’s together thisfeminist theory was birthed. When thistheory come to all end their is oursociety will be trilling for a women andwhat is the importance’s of women isknow to the male.So now we seen in the shortstory and “the Veil” it is fully concernedwith feminism so what are the criticalconditions women has sulfur in thosedays so all are rear in this 2 short stories.Key words :i) Social norms in society.ii) Supprenious of a womaniii) Female imprisonmentII)iv) Gender discriminationsv) Male prostitution towards female ideai) In those days the society made up thefemale like a prison the can’t get anyopportunity or any freedom or her ownidea. Women sits in home she cant gooutside ours she do Wales this is thecondition of women in those days so inthe short story “The veil” also depictssame attitude. In that short story“Goribi” She is the main character in thisshort story. So whatever she think andwhat’s the idea in her mind it is notlisten by others and in the age of 14 sheis married with a black fellow calledkalmia he is so black and he is a verystubborn, immature, aggressive and henever used to submit himself to other’swin there some character of thispersonality. In this short story the maincharacter of “Goribi” is one of the main& important character and she is a verybeautiful and extremely sky modestlacking cur rage girl. When she marriedthat black boy she did know aboutmarriage and that maturity level was notincrease in their mind and she alwayswearing “Veil” it represents thesuppression of the women. It is not onlya cloth but it is a prison for a women. Sowhen she wear that veil it is a acompulsory for the Muslim religions. Sowhat society do that is the final for everyreligion so it is in those days veil iscalled as a imprisonment for a women’sbut now a days it is not compulsory.In every religion has herown tradition and he own cultural andher own identity but apart from this theman should not revolt against theresocial norms. So every man has followher own religions rules so in this shortstory we seen social worms in society.In the olden days the w2omenhas not given equal status grow and inevery path she cannot grow. And inthose days the female child is bad for thefamily. And she not given her ownfreedom and whatever she like she can’tdo what in the family tells only that thing376 PLTL-2012: ISBN 978-81-920120-0-1
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