WOMEN'S SUFFERING AND SELF IDENTITY: ‘SISTER OF MY HEART’

Abstract

The aim of this research paper is to explore the trials and tribulations faced by the female characters in the novel Sister of My Heart. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel Sister of My Heart is based on the sufferings of typical Indian women. The adversities faced by the
women, existing across Asia where women are given less priority than men are dealt with in the novel. Women are treated like toys in the hands of men and the society. Men play with the emotions and feelings of women. In this novel, one of the female characters is in search of her identity amidst her sufferings. Rules and regulations created by the society are only for women. Men enjoy their freedom. This paper analyses how the female characters suffer and how they search for their identities. This article uses gender inequality as a tool to analyse the novel. Women are passive sufferers as they are not given chance to express their sufferings. In
this paper analysis has been done on the trials and tribulations faced by Sudha and Anju in the novel Sister of My Heart.