Volume : 7, Issue : 11, NOV 2021

WOMEN’S SUBJUGATION IN PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY IN REFERENCE TO VIRGINIA WOOLF: MRS. DALLOWAY

DR. NANDITA JAIN

Abstract

Women have been considered as subservient to men since time immemorial. Women are marginalized on the basis of caste, class and patriarchy. The plight of the women of these marginalized sections is painful. The study demonstrates how patriarchal society degrades women in different fields and questions their gender and identity. Virginia Woolf as a feminist writer constitute a climate in which women face the discrimination specially in her novel Mrs. Dalloway. The novel has a deeply interior perspective, traveling forward and back in time and in and out of other characters' minds in order to portray an expansive impression of Clarissa's life, mind, and identity in the span of a single day.

Keywords

MARGINALIZATION, SUSTENANCE, OPPRESSION, INTERIOR, PERSPECTIVE, DISCRIMINATION, IDENTITY.

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