Abstract: Literature reflects life. It is a tool to mirror human ideas, feelings, emotions and life itself. Many writers have expressed human lives through literature. Among all the writers a few Indian women writers like Kamala Markandeya, Kamala Das, Anita Desai, Nayantara Seghal, Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Shoba de have mirrored the lives of Indian women. Shashi Deshpande, the famous Indian novelist born in Karnataka depicts the inner feelings and emotions of Indian women through her novels. The plight of middle class educated and working women, the marital adjustments and the quest for identity forms the major theme of her novels. Her novels show how carefully she expresses the frustration and disappointment of women who experience in the social and cultural oppression in the male dominated society. Her fiction concentrates on the status of the women in the traditional bound male-dominated middle class society of the contemporary India. This paper explores the sociological disparities of the protagonist Saru in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors. It is an individual’s journey in search of one’s true self who confronts the gender oriented tradition. The novel portrays the struggle of a girl in an Indian family where a male child is preferred to a female child. The central character of the novel Saru experiences the indifference of her mother and her own guilt.
Keyword: Literature, Gender, Disparities, Patriarchal Society.
Title: SOCIOLOGICAL DISPARITIES IN SHASHI DESHPANDE’S THE DARK HOLDS NO TERRORS
Author: P.Rajini, Dr. V. Kundhavi
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3164 (online), ISSN 2348-3156 (Print)
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