A Study of Societal Relationships in Anita Desai Novels (The Clear Light of The Day)

Abstract

Abstract

The intention behind the writing of this paper is to exhibit the fictional writing of Anita Desai reflects the contemporary style of living, relations in the society. A theme of Anita Desai is always alienation from the society. She is one of the fictional writers of the Indian English. As a novelist she has portrayed the characters in novel depicting the societal cause, financial weakness are the causes for exile. The psychic nature of her characters is just derived from the society. Anita Desai has enriched the theme of people scared of living in the real world, rather would like to live in their dream world or virtual world. Her novels present an interpretation to the long consoled moan of a psyche. The writings of Anita Desai always go with the female Indian for the self?identity. Most of her works engage the complexities of modern Indian culture from a feminine perspective while highlighting the female Indian predicament of maintaining self-identity as an individual woman. She develops deep into the psyche of her female characters where she finds them struggling to strike a balance between self and society. She leads her characters to a sense of loneliness and alienation in many cases, but in some other cases there is a strong desire to overpower this as well. In most of her works, she stressed on the lives of the Indian middle-class women as most of her female characters highlighted on their strained relationships. She presents the plight of introspective, hypersensitive women in her novels.