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Gender Discrimination In The Dark Holds No Terror

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Discrimination and Empowerment after marriage:
“The real woman does not want to be equal but different.”
Federico Mangahas
Sarita got admission in the Medical College. She concentrated in her studies earlier. When she met Manohar or Manu, she fell in love with him. She thought that he would be the person that she dreamt of. She told her parents that she wanted to marry Manohar. He belongs to the lower caste. So her mother strongly opposed her decision. Saru protested against her parents and married Manu. She led a peaceful life in the earlier period of marriage life. She enjoyed the love and care of Manu for which she was longing all through her life. She became popular in her locality. Patients started to come to Saru’s home and she …show more content…

She clearly presents the discrimination followed by her mother in Saru’s early childhood and the discrimination of the society which makes Manu to ill-treat her after her marriage. The author throws light on her self-confidence and positive attitude which helps her to empower herself in her life actively.

Work Cited: Deshpande, Sashi. The Dark Holds No Terror , NewDehi:Vikas. 1980. Kavitha. “The Dark Holds No Terror – An Introduction”. The India Review of World Literature in English. Vol 2, NoII, 2006. Devika, Ramana. “The Dark Holds No Terror: A Postcolonial Reading. Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal. Gahlawat, Dalvir Singh. “Changing Image of Woman in The Dark Holds No Terror and That Long Sience of Shashi Deshpande.” Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal. Beauvior de Simonne. The Second Sex, Picador Classics edition, London: Pan Books Ltd, 1988. Adesh Pal, “Ego- Self Crisis in the Fiction of Shashi Deshpande,” Changing Faces of Women in Indian Writing in English, eds M.q. Khan, A.G. Khan (New Delhi. Creative Books, 1995), p.

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