A JOURNEY OF A NEW WOMAN TO A NEW LIFE:
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ManjuKapur’sThe Immigrant U.NITHYAKUMARI M.A.,Mphil., Assistant professor-Department of English BACAS
Manjukapur an eminent novelist focuses on creating a new woman in her novels brings meaning for transformation through their own life.The novelist craftsmanship excellence lies when her protagonists challenge their struggle and trials. These struggle and suffering becomes a weapon for her women to become strong and victorious. Obviously when a woman becomes strongershe even gets the more courage to break the stereotype tradition, which hurdles her successful journey. Kapur in her novel The Immigrant brings the various phases in the journey of Nina the protagonist. Ninaa
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At one point she realises that loneliness starts to operate in her again and only connection to home, are the phone calls to her mother. ManjuKapur uses her strength and valiant when she receives the alarm from La Leche league, to take old decision to meet the Gynecologist. Because she believes the arrival of child will bring happiness and will make her loneliness disappear. But the confrontation of Nina does not work out with the selfish and betrayal husband who tries to hide his problem he undergoes the premature ejaculation and tries to change her track. “To get pregnant as soon as you married was a very stupid. It was more important to settle down first.”(167) But her strong decision to meet the gynecologist proves on her side that she is normal. The sexual therapy in the novel brings out the male dominated cruel treatment upon the protagonist who depends only on her husband longing and waiting for motherhood thus accepts “it was wise to quietly accept this improved,situation rather than spoil it with question.”(206)But as a woman she thus raises a question “isn’t a prostitute also a sexual professional she asked.”(207)The reply from her husband proves the Indian male ego attitude who always expects the loyalty only from the opposite
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Radha is emotionally detached and fairly disdainful of her husband, Shyam. Their matrimony existed only in name, without any effort on the part of Radha to keep it lively. She was unable to create a bond with him and considered that her marriage was already “fractured” as she mentioned to Chris. It is the beginning to enjoy her life and first step indirectly to voice out her travail. An affair can add excitement and a sense of purpose to life, and often this activity helps to taste up the state of achieving autonomy, from the hands of the dominati...
Yet medical writers voiced more than a certain anxiety as to how to regulate marital pleasure, especially for the female partner. The conjugal "genital act" may have been the best medicine in preventing hysteria and maintaining general health, but only when dispensed in exactly the right dosage. Too much or too little could also unleash fatal female instincts, making marriage not the cure to a woman 's debauchery, past or future, but rather the gateway. Thus, while for men marriage itself seemed to offer enough of a cure for unregulated passion, for women another layer of surveillance was needed: enter the husband, dispenser and moderator of pleasure and passion. '” (Mesch
There are millions of people who attempt to cross the border every day. These people cross the border from different countries to the United States to live a better life, to provide for their loved ones, and to live the American Dream. The American Dream is to be able to spend time with family while paying the house bills and the car bill all while having a job. People migrating to the United States could be an advantage and a disadvantage in the United States. In “The Crossing” by Ruben Martinez the social issue is immigration. Immigration is a problem in this story because we see a lot of immigrants trying to migrate to the United States. Ruben Martinez mentions in the short story “The Crossing” This desert is armed with Mexican and American
Her days are spent bedridden after an unknown trauma forces her husband to prescribe “rest cures” as the antidote. During this time period, women were dehumanized to an object that was to be seen and not heard. Resistance during this era was futile, so whatever a man deemed worthy of a woman’s doing, she permitted to do so. “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assure friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency- what one to do?” (Gilman 126) Although nothing is specifically identified in the story, this woman is suffering from post-partum depression and delirium. There is no baby to be found in the story, so one may assume a miscarriage or a stillborn death. This initial period of isolation is a key factor in helping the narrator identify truly with herself, for she starts to question the actions of the people around her who are pleading their merit through their absence. This negligence, this abuse helped to mold the mindset that she has been forced to create due to the lack of communication between doctor and patient. Feminism comes into play when the gender of the patient compromises treatment. Due to the severity of this trauma which was kept on an extremely low profile, this woman was not able to properly grieve for her lost
Immigrants have been a vital part of the U.S. ever since the day the country was founded. But perspectives on immigrants have varied through time and one of the most popular ways of presenting them was through political cartoons. From the 1860s-1910s one of the biggest issues the U.S. was facing was how to properly regulate the flow of immigrants into the country. We also see this tying of Americanness and whiteness, where even certain Europeans weren’t considered full American even though they were white. White Americans wanted more white seeming migrants which would help further establish the American identity as white. The political cartoons show the shifting perspective placed on immigrants, from a universal fear of them, to a more divided
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She explores the trends of dominance as when it comes to men being the head and women essentially being second. She draws attention to the sexual desire differences that men and women experience, how they view sexual health, behaviors, and intimacy. Even though she comes across a bit monolithic in her view of men, she does discuss some of the differences that have men and women view sexuality differently. She reminds of how patriarchy operates in ways in which women are placed in continual oppressive spaces even within their homes and even their
She wants the readers, whoever it is, old, young, men and especially women to understand that this attitude to women as a whole, is wrong and should be changed. She also encourages the readers to take action against this treatment of women and also wants the husbands to stop unfair treatment of their wives, including their attitude of demanding too much from their wives. She also tried to encourage women who are unconscious of such activities and being quite against the treatment of their husband, thinking this as the part of the traditional “home wife”. The author also wants people, especially women to get angry and feel emotional, with this She made her essay more like manly.
Nina becomes conscious and worried about the happening at her first night and then her inner conflict begins with consummation. A sudden force of comparison between Ananda and Rahul is taken by her mind and she finds that Rahul was much obsessive and endlessly asking her about how she felt in different positions and her satisfaction in physical intimacy. However, Ananda never shows any excitement and seems in a hurry about sex. At bridal night, Nina feels suspicious about the problem of her husband while having physical intimacy but she neglects that being unaware that it would be her reason of grief in the
Immigration has always been a large conflict people have faced all across the world. There are plenty of reasons why people migrate to a country, whether it may be the United States or any other particular one. Many people often come in an attempt to escape poverty, crime, or to simply have a better opportunity to better their lifestyle. Although there are people who migrate and commit severe crimes, there are others who sacrifice themselves in order to live a better life. In addition to that, I believe the government should approve new immigration laws in favor of immigrants who come to better their life and achieve their dreams.
Nonetheless, the way feminism is portrayed is not the “traditional” way people perceive it, but it incorporates all of Chimamanda’s perceptions of this term. The story discusses the affair between a wealthy man and an unnamed female character, which in the middle of a traffic jam in Lagos, Nigeria imagines that the woman in the car next to her can be the wife of the man she’s seeing. The story is considered feminist because the narrator is a strong female. The main character has two choices: she can take her friend’s Chikwado path and find a husband or she can take her own choices and be happy in a non-conventional kind of relationship. The narrator has pressures from her lover who says to her “You’ll want to settle down soon,” he said.
Bharati Mukherjee’s story, “Two Ways to Belong in America”, is about two sisters from India who later came to America in search of different ambitions. Growing up they were very similar in their looks and their beliefs, but they have contrasting views on immigration and citizenship. Both girls had been living in the United States for 35 years and only one sister had her citizenship. Bharati decided not to follow Indian traditional values and she married outside of her culture. She had no desire to continue worshipping her culture from her childhood, so she became a United States citizen. Her ideal life goal was to stay in America and transform her life. Mira, on the other hand, married an Indian student and they both earned labor certifications that was crucial for a green card. She wanted to move back to India after retirement because that is where her heart belonged. The author’s tone fluctuates throughout the story. At the beginning of the story her tone is pitiful but then it becomes sympathizing and understanding. She makes it known that she highly disagrees with her sister’s viewpoints but she is still considerate and explains her sister’s thought process. While comparing the two perspectives, the author uses many
story of folk families over a period of eighteen months as a mother examines for a a suitable boy to marry her daughter. An Equal Music (1997) is about Michel, a practiced violinist, who is unable to forget his love for Julia, a pianist he met as a student in Vienna.
Garg in ‘Hari Bindi’ discusses the story of a common woman and made it extraordinary by the active force she was experiencing in herself to live her life. The husband of the protagonist symbolises the power and control of patriarchy that had restricted her life in such a way