Objective Characterization Of Female Characters In The Novels Of Manju Kapur

Abstract

Obedience is no longer considered among the duties of a woman and every woman has the right to do her work herself, but the civil liberties keep theoretical as long as they are solo by economic freedom. A woman is always supported by men and is not emancipated from the male because she has her own choice; if custom stresses less restraint upon her than formerly, the opposite side is that freedom implied has not modified or motivated her situations. She keeps bound in her condition of vassalage. Woman has traversed most of the distance through her employment that separated her from the male, and nothing else can guarantee her liberty in practice. Once she ceases to be an equal, the system based on her dependence crumbles, between her and the universe there is no longer any need for a masculine mediator. As Simone de Beauvoir says in her The Second Sex,