Gender and the Language of Torment in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terror

Abstract

The present research paper centers on the aspects of torments and situations in marital relationship. In most of the works of Shashi Deshpande there is profound considerations of the confinement and bondage in marriage and rummage for identity. The inner emotions of the characters have been finely presented in the works of Deshpande. Her chief characters appear to swing like a pendulum between convention and innovation. Men appreciate each kind of flexibility in conventional society. They can express their thoughts, visions and sentiments around nearly everything. Female characters are assumed to be continuously quiet and tame. Considering the history of mankind since the first light of the civilization men apparently have been regarded as the legislators, forcing his specialist ideas on the women without informing them. There has been segregation, classification and labeling as solid and powerless, male and female, culture and nature, tall and small on the two inverse posts of the same social status and scale. In due course, these thoughts, practices and visions got the institutionalized shapes.