Reflections of Female Sufferings in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and Wife (original) (raw)

The present paper analyses the female sufferings of the characters in Bharati Mukherjee's novels; Jasmine and Wife. Mukherjee's Jasmine is a story of an Indian woman, beginning with her birth and early life in a little town in India, over the emigration to the USA and finally to herself and what it means to become an American. The eponymous narrator in Jasmine, also known as Jyoti, Jase or Jane, passes through one situation and country to another and so is her inner self reborn several times towards a higher level, until she finally seems to have found a place to rest. Mukherjee's Wife, presents a feminist perspective, creating an image of the oppressed woman, Dimple who struggles with her identity but does not know it. She is subject to the desires and whims of others and has been socialized to be unaware of her own desire for an independent identity. She believes she wants to be a wife, but her longing is confused with her desire for freedom. She is also unaware that such a role will not grant her those desires.

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