The Theme of Women and Violence in the Major Novels of John Galsworthy

Abstract

John Galsworthy, a versatile genius, novelist and play-wright lived between 1876 and 1933, and witnessed three eras in his life time: the Victorian Era (Queen Victoria, 1837-1901), the Edwardian era (King Edward VII, 1901-1910) and the Georgian Era (King George V, 1910-1936). John Galsworthy was a great British novelist, a dramatist, a journalist, an essayist and a versatile genius. He made enough use of his literary devices as an efficacious vehicle, to raise the issues of social and moral reforms, especially, the liberation of the poor, the oppressed and the exploited sections of society. In such a dismal social ethos, Galsworthy rose to give an impassioned expression to the feeling of sorrow and pathos in his writing in general and novels in particular.