Woman Flouting the Constraints in Anita Nair’s The Better ManS. Suganya

Abstract

This article effort is going to make a study of the changing roles of women in Indian society by taking into consideration Anita Nair’s The Better Man , the novelist of the Post independent era who have very skillfully and effectively presented the predicaments which are imposed upon them and while fighting against these predicaments, how they come out of their traditional roles as a mother, daughter, sister and above all as a wife or a home maker and acquire many unimagined and novel roles like teacher, social worker, social activist, businesswoman or corporate personality and many more. Most often female characters are fixed by gender stereotypes so that their attempts to transcend this position are often questioned. In general, female characters are silenced in the face of their oppression under a patriarchal system. It is an undeniable fact that women have not only been denied existence as complete human beings, physically and mentally set to perform on a egalitarianism with men, but also destitute of the opportunity to give expression to their feelings, their fears and their distress.