Counterfeit Reality of Egalitarianism With Reference to Manju Kapur’s Brothers

Authors

  • Jayajothilakshmi V. Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education
  • S. Mohan Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education
  • R. Kannan Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1203.04

Keywords:

culture and value, egalitarianism, gender, patriarchal domination, tradition and modernity

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyze the presentation of egalitarianism in traditional and modern world as colored by the hands of the woman writer Manju Kapur in her work Brothers. It foregrounds the relationship between the real world and the fictional world of women which is more or less the same. The chief finding is that the present life of women has a turn and development when compared to the previous generation, but the hidden complexity burst out at certain stage which proves that the convention is still prevailing. The study can help the readers to see the real world through writings and can understand and read the mind of women who suffer from sexual harassment, patriarchal dominance, in due time of optimistic life of fulfilled desires and courage of modern women. This article excerpts the proposed gender study and presents the gender discrimination of two generations portrayed by the writer which clearly exposes the deep variation as well as the oneness, and results in the projection of the real world in words. The positive changes in women’s lives and the sexual deviations too have been discussed. This study focuses on the traditional and modern livelihood of male and female through the novel Brothers authored by Manju Kapur, a well-known Indian women writer.

Author Biographies

Jayajothilakshmi V., Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education

Department of English

S. Mohan, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education

Department of English

R. Kannan, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science

Department of Languages

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2022-03-01

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