The Thousand Faces Of Night Novel Analysis

Every work of fiction by GithaHariharan truly manifests seeds of feminism, deeply rooted in her philosophical base. A cross cultural section of Indian society is depicted in her novels of female. She is a voice of women. Through her writings, she has portrayed the protagonists in the society. The Thousand Faces of Night focuses on Devi, the protagonist who feels identity crisis. The purpose of this paper is to study new women in the novels of GithaHariharan so taking in account the complexity of life, different histories, culture and different structure of values, the woman’s question, despite basic solidarity, needs to be tackled in relation to socio-cultural situation. Women under patriarchal pressure and control are subjected to, too, much

Devi, after her post-tertiary education, from America comes home to Madras with the memory of her black American lover, Dan. In the novel, mainly discuss three female characters Devi the protagonist of the novel, Sita, Devi’s mother and Mayamma, a housekeeper. This mythological story is relevant to the story of Sita, Devi’s mother. When Devi was a, child, she saw a photograph of her mother Sita, with a veena , a musical instrument, that she never saw before and when she tried to learn the facts, her grandmother narrated this story. The story goes like this: Sita brought along with her veena, when she came to the house of her in-law and she loved to play with it at her rest hours. Every time she played very beautifully and she was also appreciated. Once, while she was playing the veena very attentively forgetting everything, her father-in-law gave a mild, but firm warning against her not giving enough care and attention towards her house hold chores and duties upon the prisoners of the house. He also further questioned if she was really a wife and a daughter-in-law. After hearing these words from her father-in-law, Sita was dumbfounded and for some time she huge her head over the veena and finally, she pulled the strings out of the wooden base. Through the mouth of her grandmother, Devi heard the story of her mother as an act of repudiation of one’s own interest which was similar to the vow taken up by Gandhari by blindfolding herself. From that day onwards, Sita stopped touching her veena and gave her time and energy as well as her powers of reasoning to make her husband a success in his professional life. She sacrificed everything and devoted herself to keep up the prestige of the family as well as the fortunes of the