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Skin Deep Analysis

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Dimensions of female psyche in Nergis Dalal’s Skindeep
Sk Shakila Bhanu, Assistant Professor, Department S&H, VFSTRU
Introduction:
The study of human universals is in the midst of a distinguished resurrection in linguistics, anthropology, behavioral biology, cognitive science and other fields. Literature is certainly the most eligible tool to discover and evaluate very atmosphere of human mind. Fiction, fasten the most characteristic and powerful form of literary expression today, has acquired an influential portion in the Indo- English literature. As quality literature concentrates on psychological concepts rather than sociological themes, Psychoanalysis becomes both the map and the legend for the 20th century 's fiction and prominent novelists …show more content…

The novel Skin Deep dwells multiple and complex themes such as sisterhood, struggle for identity and human universals namely beauty and brain in which, the key characters dissolve. In received opinion sisters are fond of each other and friends of each other but in the novel they never match in appearance or in attitude towards life. Naaz, protagonist of the novel is an intelligent but a plain looking girl, her twin sister, Yasmin is very good looking and empty head girl who completely rely on her looks to have her things …show more content…

The novel starts with the awaiting of Yasmin’s visit to Dehradun where Naaz has a beautiful house, ‘something that Yasmin, for all her beauty, has never had’. Dalal depicts the spectacular and stunning dissimilarities of the twin sisters in a heart rending manner that most often the reader sympathizes with Naaz. “Strangers looking at the two of us would exclaim: ‘Are they really twins? They do not; look at all alike’ ” (1) both twins become curious observation of strangers with their different looks. Yasmin is gifted with a sort of beauty that Naaz can only dream of. Naaz is always slighted by Sophie, her English mother who takes pride in Yasmin’s beauty. These all are imprinted on little Naaz’s mind that made, her childhood dreadful and exclaimed whenever she recollects her childhood as: “I have often wondered who coined that idiotic phrase about childhood being the happiest time of one’s life” (72) Recalling childhood is not at all a happiest period of life for Naaz because it only gives pain humiliation and loneliness to her.
Naaz leads an almost invisible and lonely life in her childhood. Who is neglected by her parents but is adored by her grandmother, her guide and mentor. Grandmother advised her: …“Don’t try to compete with Yasmin. “Be different, make people look up to you because of your exceptional abilities and focused work ethic”

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