Concept of Marriage and Identity Crises in The Selected Novels of Anita Desai

ABSTRACT

India is a country of many traditions and these traditions are the biggest feature of this country that keeps everyone connected. For everyone, there is a tradition of marriage, which is not less than a fantasy and beautiful dream for an unmarried girl, which changes her whole life within a day. This transition period transformed her recognition and identity, and she becomes the wife of her husband, who is now known by the name of her husband. In India, many husbands and wives live together just because they are bounded by seven circumambulations and they are called life partners. Though there is no guarantee of love between them, life is full of responsibilities and liabilities like the burden that most females have to bear. It’s not so easy to live without love and sometimes without understanding and respect too. overall there is only a compulsion to live an unwanted unhappy life together just for the sake of the family and society. Here, Anita Desai is among those women authors who deeply know the reality behind this curtained life of women. That’s why she brought the life of her female protagonist with truth and honestly and with full sincerity she has shown the mirror to the society. In her novels, every character has her own story Thakur

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