This Time Of Morning Analysis

Nayantara Sahgal is a great writer of feminist concern. She fights as a real crusader for women’s rights and her novel This Time of Morning reflects this missionary zeal. Sahgal’s fictional works aim at creating awareness among the masses about the various forces that worked on the psychology of Indian woman and made her passive. Sahgal exposes the subordinate position of woman in the cultural, political and religious matrix of Indian society. Through the voice of her protagonists and other female characters, she wants to make woman aware of her rights and identities. This Time of morning by Nayatara Sahgal describes the tension between tradition and modernity, the birth pangs of new social orders reflecting the death of old orders. The title of the novel itself suggests the end of the dark forces and the beginning of new morning with enlightenment, where tradition and modernity coalesce to form an organic whole of humanity. Sahgal’s fictional woman characters, as portrayed by her are tied to the bond of tradition and convention. They are so imbued with age old customs that they dare not cast aside the old values and norms and thus show their

Various restrictions are imposed on her while boys are allowed to indulge in every activity whether moral or immoral. Nita, a product of western education and modern upbringing revolts against the values and norms thrust upon her by her parents. Being an independent minded person, she searches for her own space in the society. She defies convention while seemingly adhering to it. She is modest and obedient girl before her parents but away from their eyes, she indulges in all sorts of enjoyment. Nita has a strong desire to do something. She does not want to marry yet. She wants to be independent and therefore asks Rakesh to persuade her parents to allow her to do a