Indian Streams Research Journal

Volume : V, Issue : IV, May - 2015

AMBIGUITY AND INIQUITY OF DEVI IN GITHA HARIHARAN’S ‘THOUSAND FACES OF NIGHT”

Nirmala Kumari. V, None

By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

Githa Hariharan is one of the most intentive woman writers of India. Her debut novel, “The Thousand Faces of Night” expresses the ideas of the problems of women. It expresses the different psychological feelings of women through the stories of mythology. It gives us a vivid picture of women, how they follow the rules of tradition. Githa Hariharan’s “Thousand Faces of Night” is her first novel written in 1992 and was awarded “The common Wealth Writer’s Prize” in the 1993. It is closely connect to the stories of several fable myths and legends of India. It explains the quest for identity, freedom, desire of Indian woman. We cannot say that the mythological sub- stories of this novel influenced Devi, the main protagonist or not. It shows how Devi’s dissatisfaction in an arranged marriage drags and urges her to have relation with another man. But finally her search for identity ends her to be with her mother.

Keywords :

• Human n relations
• loneliness
• quest for freedom
• ambiguity, iniquity
• Indian mythology.
• Human n relations
• loneliness
• quest for freedom
• ambiguity, iniquity
• Indian mythology.
• Human n relations
• loneliness
• quest for freedom
• ambiguity, iniquity
• Indian mythology.
• Human n relations
• loneliness
• quest for freedom
• ambiguity, iniquity
• Indian mythology.
• Human n relations
• loneliness
• quest for freedom
• ambiguity, iniquity
• Indian mythology.
• Human n relations
• loneliness
• quest for freedom
• ambiguity, iniquity
• Indian mythology.

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