Rani Character Analysis

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Achieving a feminine social role

Rani has been facing discrimination and deprivation ever since a child because she is a girl. Mother had told her once “your father had tried to give you up once”. Rani has come to know all these from the friends of her mother. She has recalls that her mother and she had to undergo many ill treatments and ordeals since they were unable to react. “I had suffered a lot when I was working in the hospital. Once my colleague who was even older than my father tried to molest me locking me in a room. But somehow, I could manage to escape from his clutches. When his desire was not fulfilled, he started persecuting me in many ways. Even when I complained to the authorities, they supported that man instead of supporting …show more content…

But she is aware of it and tries to overcome this and to a certain extent she succeeds in it. She does everything smartly since she likes the life circumstances here. She is now doing the caretaker role of her mother”.
Rani adds with much sadness,
“Mom always cries, saying that she has lost her certificates. At first, I didn’t know what certificates were. I once went to mom’s house for the certificates. But the certificates had been lost. But the family members didn’t help me to find out the documents. I have to employ all my energy to console and pacify her”. Rani is now in an effort to find out the certificates and passport of her mom. Otherwise, she decided to apply for the new certificates and passport just to comfort her mother, though she knows it is quite difficult.
Accepting physique and using body effective
Rani has mixed feelings about her physique due to the horrible ordeals she has gone through on account of her gender as a girl. Her father never accepted her, even tried to kill her, doubted the fidelity of her mother and never looked at Rani lovingly. This has created an aversion towards her own body and womanhood in the young mind of Rani. Rani’s father died in an accident when she was three years old. The memories about her cruel dad haunt

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