Bhartiya Bhasha, Siksha, Sahitya evam Shodh
ISSN 2321 - 9726 (Online) New DOI : 10.32804/BBSSES
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MYTHICAL MODEL VS. REALITY IN ANITA DESAI’S FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
1 Author(s): POONAM
Vol - 2, Issue- 2 , Page(s) : 35 - 39 (2011 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/BBSSES
Anita Desai is among the foremost novelists of India. She has the distinction of being the first psychological novelist in the genre of Indian Writing in English. Her novels mainly deal with the inscape of mostly female characters placed in the Indian family system. Her novels also seem to examine the way mythical representations of Indian women contortand make the image of motherhood a role-model within the context of Indian society. Figures such as Sita constrain Indian women in two explicit ways, since they imply that every woman should be a mother but at the same time present an ideal which no woman can attain.