CHAPTER - 3 INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL SPACE

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1 CHAPTER - 3 INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL SPACE 91 Virmati

2 92 Astha in 'A Married Woman Nisha 'Home 'adorable' Simon De Beauvior remarks her own fate. What was good enough for me is good enough for you, I was brought up this way, and you shall share my lot"

3 93 2 (DD p.2). - mati the woman" 3 (DD. p.3). if you don t see to things, who will?" "Kasturi says to Virmati-you are the eldest Asha Choubey

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5 sewing to be done for the baby. There are sweaters to be made 95 I m here to look after you. Virmati. Why did you bring me if you don t need me, Mati? said What is all this nonsense? In Amritsar you were bad- "saying any thing

6 96 "We travel, read papers, attend seminars. One of them is even going to abroad for higher studies" appears from the beginning as the exempler of the or

7 to one whose responsibilities went beyond a husband and 97 shares her 'liberated life style with a group of friends, whose the seeds of aspiration in Virmati. She also wants to study more and more like her Shaku pehanji.but her mother Kasturi thinks "Kasturi found the fuss Virmati was making about failing home" (DD. p.22). and "a woman without her own home and family is a woman without moorings".

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9 99 "that were "Though she wants to study further, her parents and - dies and the marriage has been postponed for one year. She

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11 101 "Now she assumes that here it was the room where her

12 love in their eyes" 102

13 103 "soon things will be all right. Then you will see. We will one day be together"

14 104 upto her" 22 "some of them were below, some of them were darting up and down from the roof. 23

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16 Dr. Ashok Kumar 106 for her, but on the other hand, she is not ready to betray her father s faith in her. Even though she is sure about the

17 107 "What has happened, has duty to your family, and your wife, so do I must do my duty to mine"

18 108 getting married. I told my parents, that if they would support me for more years I would be grateful, otherwise I would be

19 109 "true test of great art is its ability to express the inner realities of life, those realities that do not lines" that had ploughed furrows of blood through her generation"

20 110 As Dr. (Mrs.) B.R. Agarwal thinks own selfhood and identity". As Dr. (Mrs.) B.R. Agarwal remarks "her inner self urged her to be like Shakuntala like Swaranlata to do something for like these women" 32 "useless love and doubtful marriage" 33 "She felt, out

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23 113 Shantineketan" (DD.

24 114 'gandy lady Suman Bala after her threats to sunder her relationship with him, does her that she has him and, therefore, should not bother about

25 115 other things. It is interesting to note, however, that Virmati, she is not allowed to. As Dr. (Mrs.) B.R. Agarwal. makes her steadfast to uphold her right to self- assertion to revitalize her".(ifie) As Alka Singh ). of him" 'an intimate world As - mate world

26 116 "While the - marriage" "her pleashare them with her mother. There seems a barrier between the attentive gestures that might have made the journey bearable for both"

27 117 Gur Pyari Jandial for Virmati to have tried to do that in the forties was a great.

28 118 'A Married Wom- "she was brought up properly, as absorbed them through her skin, and ever after was drawn to

29 119 "Day was unable to eat, sleep or study. Away from him her eyes felt dry and empty. Her ears only registered the sound of his him.. how to die at his doorstep"

30 120 "she often looks as her family, husband, Street Theatre Group

31 121 Masijid-Ram Janambhoomi controversy Sampradayakta Mukti Manch 'I also earn. 'What you earn, how that is really some thing, yes that will pay for the holiday. by her.

32 122 do not say anything. I am not the type to interfer but it is my duty to point out that you are going too far" "As my wife, you think it to the servants. Astha goes into familiar distress. As his wife? Is that all she is?" 'A Married Woman

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34 124 "we should struggle with her, agonize Home

35 125 ("Indian Culture" idiscoverindia.com) ("Social Culture" 58

36 126 'Anandalakshmi' 'Nisha'

37 127 ("erikson" com) 60 "At me" "One day I will run away from their house and shop"

38 it proliferated, grew large and terrifying" 128

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41 woman returned a sub-standard famale" 131 "The Death of the Hired Man" 'Home take you in" ready to give your life, your money, everything"

42 132 "destined to marry unfortunately, destined for misery, unless a -

43 unimaginative" 133 own"

44 134 "Nisha, dear nothing else"

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46 Home 136

47 REFERENCES Beauvior, Simon De, The Second Sex, trans and edited by H.M. Parshley, New York: knoof, Faber, 1999, p Ibid., p Ibid., p Chobey, Asha: Mothers and Daughters: A comparative critique to Anita Desai ed. by Shubha Tiwari Vol. ii New Delhi, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd Faber 1999, p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p.68.

48 22. Ibid., p Ibid., p Kumar Dr. Ashok : Portrayal of New Women; A study of Manju Kapur's A Married Women in Indian Writing in English : Critical Ruminations Vol. II, by Amar Nath Prasad, Sarup & Sons, New Delhi, 2006 p.107. Faber 1999, p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Agarwal, Dr. (Mrs.) B.R.: Indian English Literature and Crisis in Value System in Indian Fiction in English: Roots and Blossoms by Amar Nath Prasad New Delhi, Sarup and Sons, 2007, p Agarwal, Dr. (Mrs.) B.R. : Indian English Literature and Crisis in Value System in Indian Fiction in English: Roots and Blossoms by Amar Nath Prasad New Delhi, Sarup and Sons, 2007, p.105. Faber 1999 p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p.208. of Indian Writing edited by R.K Dhawan, New Delhi, Prestige,

49 , p Ibid., p Agarwal, Dr. (Mrs.) B.R.: Indian English Literature and Crisis in Value System in Indian Fiction in English: Roots and Blossoms by Amar Nath Prasad New Delhi, Sarup and Son, Singh, Alka: Exploring Possibilities Beyond traditions: Manju Kapur s Difficult Daughters in Discussing Indian Women Writers Some Feminist Issues ed. by Alessandro Monti and R.K. Dhawan, New Delhi, Prestige, (pp ). Faber, 1999, p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Gur Pyari Jandial, Evolving a Feminist Tradition : The novels of Shashi Despande and Manju Kapur (Awaiting publication in Atlantic Litrary Review [Delhi], 4.3) Faber, 1999 p Kapur, Manju : A Married Women, India Ink., 2002 p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p.112.

50 Kakar, Sudhir, "Feminine Identity in India." Women in Indian Society, Ed. Rehana Ghadially, New Delhi: Sage Publications, Kapur, Manju : Home, India Ink., 2002 p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Ibid., p Kakar, Sudhir, "Feminine Identity in India." Women in Indian Society, Ed. Rehana Ghadially, New Delhi: Sage Publications, r

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