scholarly journals SUBALTERN PERSPECTIVES IN MAHESH DATTANIS BRAVELY FOUGHT THE QUEEN

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Aninnya Sarkar ◽  
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Indrani Singh Rai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Existential Crisis

Mahesh DattanisBravely Fought the Queen elucidates the defaulted picture of the Indian society, where the characters face a tremendous existential crisis. The women are badly dependent on the men characters for their survival, whereas the male characters are badly dependent on the patriarchal system for proving their dominant existence in the society. Every character in the play whether a man or a woman faces a gruesome crisis for their survival. They are not free birds who can drive their life by their free will. Women in the play are portrayed as the victims under the tyrannical hands of patriarchy, from which they are trying to escape from the claustrophobic existence to their own shaped world of independence. This paper is an earnest endevour to explore the existential crisis of the characters and search a probable solution.

scholarly journals Existential Crisis, Sexuality and Immutable Plight of Women in the Plays 'Sakharam Binder' and ‘Silence the Court is in Session'

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Shehnaz Khan
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Male Domination ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Pass Through

“It's a men's world women are here only to assist, serve and please men. It’s the way the world has always been.” In the world there is only one supreme culture prevailing universally in all the societies is the men-centric culture, which is all powerful and all pervasive. This patriarchal culture and its norms are so deeply engrained in the soul of people that they relegate women into fringe or secondary position. Women's rights talk about equality in each aspects of life but in India where patriarchy has solid roots in society, it appears to be extremely hard to acquire concordance and equality in power structures. Patriarchy has clasped Indian middle class society in its stereotyped shackles and its hold on society is unbending and heavy which adversely affects the lives of women. The torture born by women is the result of brutal dominating tendency of males and Tendulkar in general, spotlights on the patriarchal society in both of his plays. He indicated how a men centric society and women's liberation are interconnected and how male domination transforms into maltreatment of women. All the power in Indian society is in the hands of the males which at last prompts the pathetic state of females. Power, when gets discordant, without a doubt results into persecution and domination whether it is mastery of man over women or the other way around. Indian middle class has the same imbalanced power structure and consequently male domination exists because of male dominated society. The ruling idea of males tosses women into a well of persecution of each sort. Such state of females is exhibited by Tendulkar in ‘Sakharam Binder' and in ‘Silence the Court is in Session' caused by the patriarchal system of culture wherein the women have to struggle hard and pass through severe plight to establish their place in society. As we see in case of these three women Miss Benare, Laxmi and Champa. All these three are discarded women who strive hard for their existence in society and have to pass through so many inextricable difficulties. But the plight goes immutable, and unending.

Freeing Ahasuerus, Haman, and Mordechai: Liberating the Oppressor in the Book of Esther

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-61
Author(s):  
Denise Flanders
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Text ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology

Abstract The approach taken in this essay proceeds from the assumption that the biblical text of Esther reflects a patriarchal ideology and it is largely the males in the story who wield the power. However, instead of examining the negative consequences for the female characters and how the patriarchal system forces them to operate, I look to the male characters to see how they fare in the system of patriarchy which they undoubtedly inhabit. In the first part of the essay, I consider the call issued by womanist and liberation theologians from traditionally marginalized communities for the need for liberation of both the oppressed and the oppressors from systems of oppression. In the second part of the essay, I respond to this call via an analysis of the book of Esther. First, I examine four different actions or attitudes that characterize the men in the story. Second, I observe some places where their power clearly brings them loss. Third, I argue that the destructive attitudes, actions, and relationships of the men in the story demonstrate their own need for liberation from the oppressive system of patriarchy from which they supposedly benefit.

scholarly journals Reconceiving the Ecological Wisdoms of Ved?nta in Anthropocene: An Eco-aesthetical Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kumar Verma ◽  
◽  
Prabha Shankar Dwivedi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
The Relationship

The paper aims to lay out a critical analysis of eco-aesthetical wisdom of pan-Indian society through the lens of ancient seers whose insights for environment and ecology were shaped in the form of the teachings of Vedas and Upani?ads. With the passage of time, the bond between humans and non-humans has largely weakened, and humans have increased exploiting the natural resources without caring for their regeneration. Consequent nature bred hostility is emerging as a bigger crisis in front of the 21st Century world that may sooner turn to be, if not taken seriously, an existential crisis for the whole human race. The Upani?ads enlighten us not only with the knowledge of maintaining the relationship between human beings and physical environment but also among various inhabitants of ecology. Therefore, as Deep Ecology proposes, there should be a shift from human at the centre (anthropocentricism) to ecology at the centre (ecocentrism) which very much was existing in Indian society. So, this paper attempts to deal with the global ecological crisis co-opting with the ecological/environmental ideas and attitude of the classical Indian treatises.

scholarly journals Male–suicides in an Indian society-a study

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyoti Kala
Keyword(s):  
Research Data ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Biological Factors ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Married Men ◽  
Commit Suicide

Activists advocating male rights and opposing feminism believe that in comparison to married women the married men commit suicide in greater number. According to them the patriarchal system affects men more negatively than women. To analyze this point of view on the basis of research data an attempt has been made to represent the social, psychological and biological factors responsible for male-suicides. The objective of the paper is to draw attention and generate awareness towards this serious, however, neglected problem of Indian society.

UNTAMED HEARTS: EROS AND SUICIDE IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINESE FICTION

NAN Nü ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Zamperini
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Vernacular Fiction ◽  
Chinese Fiction ◽  
The Face

AbstractIn Chinese fiction there are heroines who use suicide as a vehicle to convey to eternity the strength of their passions, from love to hatred, from jealousy to thirst for revenge. The present paper is an exploration of late imperial literary representations which depict women's suicide as an act of passion and self-reassertion: this act, rather than being constructed as defeat in the face of adversities, a response to abuse suffered, or as a last resort to preserve chastity, is presented as a path of independence that shows these female characters not as virtuous martyrs or victims of an unjust patriarchal system, but as passionate agents of free will. These sources challenge the assumption that women's suicide in Ming and Qing fictional sources is primarily related to chastity. In this sense, they are useful in furthering understanding of the complex ways in which legal and moral mandates around the issue of women's suicide could be resisted, absorbed, and ignored in late imperial vernacular fiction.

scholarly journals JERITAN PEREMPUAN YANG TERKUNGKUNG SISTEM PATRIARKI DALAM KUMPULAN CERITA PENDEK AKAR PULE: SUATU TINJAUAN FEMINISME RADIKAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Zahratul Umniyyah
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Radical Feminism ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Male Characters

Abstrak : Kajian ini membahas dua cerita pendek dalam Kumpulan Cerita Pendek Akar Pule karya Oka Rusmini. Tulisan ini bertujuan mengungkap, menganalisis, dan mendeskripsikan penderitaan fisik dan penderitaan psikis yang dihadapi perempuan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode penelitian kualitatif. Pengarang menyuarakan pemikirannya melalui kemunculan tokoh-tokoh perempuan dan berbagai permasalahan yang bersumber dari laki-laki. Posisi perempuan selalu dianggap lemah, sistem patriarki yang tumbuh subur di Bali semakin menekan kedudukan perempuan sehingga perempuan semakin tidak berdaya dan harus tunduk dengan aturan adat yang sangat merugikan pihak perempuan. Kata kunci: sastra, feminisme radikal, sistem patriarki   Abstract : This study discusses two short stories part of Akar Pule anthology written by Oka Rusmini. In this study, the writer attempts to reveal, analyze, dan describe physical and psychological oppressions experienced by the female character. In this study the writer uses qualitative method as research method. The author voices her thoughts by presenting the female characters and their problem caused by male characters (men). In these short stories female characters (women) are placed in weaker position than men. The patriarchal system which is deeply rooted in Balinese culture gives more oppression towards women making Balinese women more powerless and forcing them to obey the customs that disadvantage them. Keywords: literary work, radical feminism, patriarchal system

scholarly journals Eroticism in the “Cold Climate” of Northern Ireland in Christina Reid’s "The Belle of the Belfast City"

Text Matters ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Ojrzyńska
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
Private Domain

Closely based on the dramatist’s personal experience, Christina Reid’s The Belle of the Belfast City offers a commentary on the life of the Protestant working class in the capital of Northern Ireland in the 1980s from a woman’s perspective. It shows the way eroticism is successfully used by the female characters as a source of emancipation as well as a means not only to secure their strong position in the private domain of the household, but also to challenge the patriarchal structures that prevail in the Irish public sphere. The analysis of the play proposed in this essay focuses on the contrast between the presentation of its male and female characters. I will demonstrate that, while the former group desperately cling to the idea of preserving the social status quo, the latter display a more progressive outlook on the social and sexual politics of the country. In particular, I will investigate how the tensions between the representatives of the two sexes reveal themselves in the corporal sphere. I will argue that, as opposed to the erotically-inhibited and physically-inarticulate male characters, the female dramatis personae take advantage of being more connected to their bodies and use their physicality in an erotic fashion to subvert the rules of the patriarchal system and its strict moral code that limits their social roles to those of respectful mothers, obedient sisters or virtuous wives.

Disparities of Well-being Between the Female-headed ST and Non-ST Households: A State-wise Overview in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 2455328X2110427
Author(s):  
Bapan Biswas ◽  
Nasrin Banu
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
The Family ◽  
Household Assets ◽  
Cross Tabulation ◽  
Female Headed Households ◽  
Female Member ◽  
Economic Well Being

Indian society is still dominated by the patriarchal system where women get less importance. A majority of households in India are headed by the male member of the family. According to Census 2011, only 10.78% of households are headed by a female member, and they are marginalized compared to the households headed by the male counterpart. Indian society is stratified into several groups based on language, religion, castes and tribes. Scheduled Tribes (ST) are the most marginalized among these social groups. From this perspective, the study focuses mainly on two marginalized sections, i.e. female-headed households (FHHs) of ST and their counterpart of non-ST families. This comparative study mainly describes the well-being disparity between the ST and non-ST FHHs based on the housing condition, presence of basic amenities and household assets possession. The study also emphasizes the regional disparity of economic well-being in the FHHs between ST and non-ST community in India. It is a secondary database work based on Census of India 2011. Descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation, paired sample t-test and disparity index have been used to obtain empirical outcome. The results indicate that though the proportion share of FHHs is higher in ST community, in all the fields they are lagging behind the non-ST FHHs at the national level. In most of the states, non-ST FHHs are well off in terms of economic well-being compared to the ST FHHs, and it creates well-being disparity between two groups. Further, the study found that the magnitude of well-being also differs within its own community.

When Mother Earth Rises Up

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Sacchi ◽  
Paolo Riva ◽  
Marco Brambilla
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Willingness To Help ◽  
Mother Earth

Anthropomorphization is the tendency to ascribe humanlike features and mental states, such as free will and consciousness, to nonhuman beings or inanimate agents. Two studies investigated the consequences of the anthropomorphization of nature on people’s willingness to help victims of natural disasters. Study 1 (N = 96) showed that the humanization of nature correlated negatively with willingness to help natural disaster victims. Study 2 (N = 52) tested for causality, showing that the anthropomorphization of nature reduced participants’ intentions to help the victims. Overall, our findings suggest that humanizing nature undermines the tendency to support victims of natural disasters.

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