Amrita Pritam Essays

From centuries, woman is struggling against the patriarchal subjugation and exploitation. Whether born in east or west, she is regarded as an other, an unwanted inferior being. Patriarchs try to control each and every movement of woman. Man expects woman to act according to his wishes and to achieve this goal of subjugation of woman, he employs every kind of strategy and literature is one of the means to achieve this end. Man written literature is full of women characters who are totally submissive