Excruciation and Revelation in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters

Abstract

The art of expressing the ideas of universal interest is called literature. The artistic value of the body of the writing is deemed upon the individual value. In the present scenario, though there is a wider spectrum in this area of study the proposed domain for the research paper is Indian writing in English. Manju Kapur’s artistic endeavour was appreciated for the diversity of themes and the awareness for the issues responsible for tension in contemporary society. Her first novel Difficult Daughters testifies the natural force of her narratology. The protagonists in Kapur’s novels are the manifestations of the sufferings of women, in general, who bear testimonies which are everlasting. Kapur aims at an attitudinal change in the Indian society which has not yet liberated itself from the shackles of tradition seeped in superstitions. Over the years, a constant struggle against society has been the recurrent theme of women’s writing in India. Feminism is a desirable necessity in the absence of which the society loses its equilibrium in the relationship between men and women. Though Kapur’s protagonists sulk at times, they often rise up to the occasion to prove to the world that they cannot be always taken for granted.