Marginalized Women in India: A Thematic Analysis of Manju Kapur’s Select Novels

Abstract

This paper aims to present a thematic analysis of the Novels of Manju Kapur. In her novels she had handled various issues like mother daughter relationship, importance of education, joint family system, motherhood etc., in all her novels the protagonist suffers a lot in the society and earn lot of lessons of their experience.  Manju kapur focus her women as a modern woman those who always fights for their survival and nature of suppression against the patriarchal society. In this paper the idea which was shown is to present the theme of two novels namely Difficult Daughters and The Immigrant.  The protagonist in these novels was educated, caring and mainly they search their identity to live a peaceful life in the society.  The education which they had leads them to think that the society and their family become intolerable to them.  Not only her novels show feminism but more about the society in all the aspects.