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The Daughters in A House for Mr. Biswas: As Vulnerable As the Protagonist
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Iosr, Journals Rajkumar, Halder |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | The general approach to A House for Mr. Biswas is to examine it as the story of Mr. Biswas who is ‘trapped’ by marrying into a family that is ever ready to destroy his individuality and render him merely to the state of labourers like his fellow brothers-in-law. He is always treated as someone intensely suffering from such postcolonial issues like ‘homelessness’, ‘alienation’, ‘identity crisis’ etc. Nonetheless, while redressing his sufferings, a very little thought is given to the daughters of Hanuman House. They are barely thought of as having any crucial issue to be dealt with whereas if examined closely they would also be discovered belonging almost to the same group as Mr. Biswas. Much like Mr. Biswas, the daughters also are an oppressed group, which much to our surprise, they themselves are scarcely aware of. However, the present essay endeavours to highlight the nature and treatment subjected to the daughters, and to show that in no way are they less oppressed than Mr. Biswas and that they also deserve a great deal of attention too. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.6084/m9.figshare.1488601.v1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol20-issue7/Version-4/G020745660.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1488601.v1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
