DEPICTION OF FEMINISTIC ASPIRATION IN THE SELECTED NOVELS OF R. K. NARAYAN

Abstract

R. K. Narayan is one of the most acclaimed, widely read and notable novelists of Indian English fiction and literature. It is widely known that he represented wide range of variety of Indian traditional women of middle class society which reflects the realistic approach of the Indian society. All novels reflect and reveal social realism of the contemporary Indian society and the predicament of Indian women, who were striving for the existence and survival of their identity to fulfill their aspirations. The main objective of the paper is to investigate and analysis the struggle to fulfill the aspiration of female characters in his novels. Also it helps to find out realistic and traditional Indian culture and traditional values among the female characters through the novels of R. K. Narayan.  Indian women are the backbone of the society and family. It has a long and prestigious heritage of rich culture and tradition where Indian women are next to the God. R. K. Narayan depicts the female characters in such a way that there is an eagerness to come out from the shackles deep rooted worn out Indian beliefs and customs of Indian society to breathe freely in the free and fair atmosphere like the men, but not parting away from the traditional and cultural Indian customs and beliefs of the Indian society.