Female Characters In Literature

Female characters have undoubtedly experienced a lot of transformation in Literature over the time. They have shifted from archetypal roles of noble, weak and suffering figure in a patriarchal world to strong characters, they have achieved or are striving for equal rights for themselves. Their portrayal as complex characters has created a new wave of feminist writers, readers and characters. South Asian writers choose to use English as a tool to address global audience extensively. Being an author, Hanif has deployed power through the character of a Christian nurse “Alice” who is below ordinary by her status in the narrative. Her low caste Christian background and her past of spending time in jail makes her presence obscure in the social

Yet the position and state of minority ladies stays critical and undermined. Administrative bodies, equity conveyance frameworks, foundations and usage systems appear to consider ladies fitting in with religious minorities as non-entities mostly. Just in case that women liberations is seen as a method for building a better society and the notion of gender equality is connected both as a rule and system, then the need to give equal rights and status to the females of minority religion is amazingly critical in Pakistan. Women of religious minorities are approximately 3 million in Pakistan. Yet there is no representation of women's of minorities in summit and higher legal, or common and remote administrations

In the novel Karachi appears as a place for understanding the relationship which an individual’s physical and spiritual body shares with city. The dynamic spaces of psyche and desires are in clash with the physical places in Hanif’s Karachi. In the narrative, Alice rises as an associating link between body, religion, caste, class and Karachi. She is a junior nurse and daughter of “chief janitor in the Municipal Corporation” (Hanif 67). Being a Catholic Christian and a ‘choohra’ by caste, the term itself is derogatory and conveys at once society’s condensation and prejudice against the low caste sweepers and sweepresses; she encounters the shame of being an “untouchable” and also faces the weakness of being a female in Karachi. She lives up to the expectations in the hospital in the wake of spending some time in jail because of a false accusation of “medical malpractice” (Hanif 260). As a nurse she builds some sort of miraculous power to heal ladies and infants who infrequently would have survived in maternity ward which is marked as “slaughter house” (Hanif 16) in the narrative. Later she marries Teddy Butt and adopts a child without his permission. Because of her healing abilities, she is looked upon by numerous people as a “holy spirit” (Hanif 272). A woman whose prayers to