Virmati's Battle For Self-Actualization In Manjukapur's Novel Difficult Daughters

Abstract

This study aims to examine a middle-class woman's need to survive, as well as her need to carve out a place and an identity for herself in a patriarchal society. The middle-class woman exhibits a trait of rebelliousness and silent protest even in her submissiveness. Manju Kapur's novel Difficult Daughters delves into the complex terrain of the Indian patriarchal family, leaving us in awe of the various issues that are deeply rooted in any Indian middle-class family – the revolt against age-old traditions, the quest for identity, marriage problems, and, finally, the struggle of women for survival and the desire to create a separate identity for herself apart from her roles as a wife, mother, daughter, and daughter-in-law. The paper entitled "Virmati's battle for self-actualization in ManjuKapur's novel Difficult Daughters.".