The sketch of ‘Devi’ as role model in thousand faces of night

Abstract

The author in her book ‘The Thousand Faces of Night’ brought to limelight the collective problems of subjugated and concealed women in India. The depiction of women in the novel makes it clear that the individuality of Indian women has really become genuine and conspicuous human problem in recent decades. The passive role assigned to women as a daughter, wife and mother was remonstrated by the author. Hariharan in her book demands for the women a complete and individual personality and opposes the ill-treatment of women in every walk of life. She condemned the Indian notion of subjugation of women for the sake of the pleasures of the man. The treating of wife as means for the flesh goals of her husband is condemned by the author. In this paper an attempt is made to describe the portrayal of women characters in the ‘The Thousand Faces of Night’ of Githa Hariharan.