Author : Dr. Mahesh Kumar 1
Date of Publication :26th October 2020
Abstract: The present novel “Roots and Shadows†is Shashi Deshpande’s award winning novel. She is pretty famous novelist for the enlightment of woman related isuues. In this novel also, She explains very beautifully how a girl or a woman struggles for her individual identity. The story is based on the themes of tradition, family life, marriage, patriarchy, domestic abuse, self-delusion and adultery. The author has tried to display the complex web of interpersonal conflicts and interpersonal contradictions affect all our lives. Indu considers her education and wit as her medals of superiority but fails to show her strength in her individual battles. All her life she pretends to be a rebel but her life ends up being a summation of responses to others, be it retaliation against Jayant and Akka or persuasion of Naren and self-indulgence.
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- Roots and Shadows., pp.158-59.
- Ibid., p.159.
- Ibid., p.145.
- Ibid., p.14.
- Ibid., p.34.
- Ibid., p.41.
- Ibid., p.89
- Ibid., p.167.
- Ibid., p.188. [10] Klein, 1989, p.167.
- Roots and Shadow, p.173.
- Ibid. [13] O.P. Bhatnagar, “Indian Womenhood”.
- Sarabjit Sandhu, The Novels of Shashi Deshpande, Prestige Books, 1991; pp.31-32.
- Roots and Shadows, p.61.