Virmati's Identity In Life: An Analysis

The above lines explore Virmati’s struggle against odd to create her own identity in life. In real sense, her struggle inspires everyone to achieve his or her aims. Though she suffers a lot in her life, her achievement is not small one. She rejects to become submissive, she revolts against the tradition for her selfness. She struggles for everything rather one can say, for every little thing in her life. As a child, she struggles for her freedom to enjoy childhood. She wants to live like a free bird but due to family responsibilities, she lost her childhood and becomes second mother of her ten siblings due to mother’s illness and incessant pregnancies. When she enters into the world of romantic age, the adulthood, she struggles a lot for her illicit love. She falls in love with a married professor.
Male dominated society denies women’s existence without family and men. It is sad that not only men but also women sometimes play role of male patriarchy. Here Virmati’s mother Kasturi’s views reflect the male patriarchy. She told Virmati about having a man in life is too important to neglect. She says, “A woman without her own home and family is a woman without moorings” (Kapur 111). Kasturi’s views explore the orthodox view of the society and more so as it

The novel is an exploration of woman’s struggle and suffering in the journey of creation of individual identity. It describes Virmati’s endeavors against so-called traditional taboos, her struggle to break the shackles of orthodox, rigid social customs where women are considered inferior than men. It is the fact that though Virmati succeed in crossing patriarchal boundaries, there are certain priorities so deeply embedded within her that she struggles a lot to uproot and get free from them but fails in