Rabindranath's Depiction Of Women In Literature

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Variety of movements gradually establishes and emerges throughout the era showing the development of the world towards new ideologies and theories. One of them is realism. According to Mullan (2014), realism is popularly defined as faithful representation of the real world in literature starting from the 1850s. It advocates the idea of actuality of real life and not associates with any imagination and vagueness. Specifically, realism theory was first invented in France and the rest part of the Europe (new world encyclopedia). Besides, it also involves the period of civil war until the rise of large number of realist such as Mark Twain, Rebecca Harding Davis and many more. Due to the influence and spread of this theory, a few characteristic …show more content…

According to chpter 2…., Hindu disregard the status of women in the early days because of the perspectives that girls bring bad luck and burden to the family. Due to that, their birth is completely not considered as the celebration of the coming of new members in the family rather they were poorly neglected which resulted of force marriage and ill-treatment. Specifically, Rabindranath wanted to highlight the social injustice that happen during his time depicting women are viewed as an object that is easily replaceable. They are also known as weak and helpless creatures at that era. This situation is vividly potrayed in the ‘Assets and Debts’ when Nirupama, a daughter in law experienced a terrible moment in her life due to the treatment of her in- laws. She was humiliated verbally to the point that she is lower than the servant in the house. For instance, she does not get proper food and clothes which are among of the basic necessities of human being. Not to mention, surprisingly her death is not the turning point where her in laws regret their attitude rather they abruptly decide the next bride for his son. This illustrates that women are merely property that are subjected to the luxury of the family. In addition, the

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