The Role Of Women In Cry The Peacock

Anita Mazumdar Desai was born in Mussoorie in1937. She was awarded Sahitya Academy Award by Sahitya Academy for her novel Fire on the Mountain in 1978. She won the Brooker prize three times and the British Gaurdian prize for The Village by the Sea. Anita Desai is among the Anglo Indian Novelist and a feminist writer. A feminist tries to see only the suppression, oppression, injustice and cruelties did to the women but Anita Desai does not hesitate to point out the responsibilities of women character. Her first novel Cry, the Peacock was published in 1963, deals with a feminism concern which gave her immense attention from the readers. Her works are autobiographical in nature. Desai 's heroines are of two sorts, from one perspective they are psychotic, excessively touchy and then again they are pessimistic, extreme and sour. Cry, the Peacock is a story of a sensitive woman Maya who is haunted by the prophecy of an astrologer and in the end kills her husband Gautam. She is sensitive, poetic but her husband is her opposite. Gautam a middle-aged lawyer is her father’s friend to whom she gets married. Maya who was treated as princess by her father, she was ignored in all way by her husband. When the astrologer predicted that one of them will die so Maya decided to kill Gautam. As indicated by Maya, Gautam was a man who was at that point dead as he had rejected everything which makes life worth living. She was not given the desired love and affection by her husband which she