Woman as a Major Character in Kamala Markandaya’s Selected Novels
Keywords:
Individual Self, Female CharactersAbstract
This paper attempts to examine and explore the study of Woman as a Major Character in Kamala Markandaya’s Novels: Nectar in a Sieve, Some Inner Fury, Possession and Two Virgins. Markandaya’s novels are marked for their use of women characters as her spokespersons. She published eleven impressive novels and in all the novels the woman characters are glorified. The key protagonists in most of her novels are female characters who are in constant search for meaning and value of life. In some of her novels she presents an existential struggle of a woman who denies to flow along the current and refuses to submit her individual self. Markandaya was master in the depiction of female characters in her novels.
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