Volume-X, Issue-V, September 2024 |
শরৎ-সাহিত্য এবং নারীচেতনা ড. পৌলমী চক্রবর্তী, সহকারী অধ্যাপক, দর্শন বিভাগ, ঝাড়গ্রাম রাজ কলেজ, ঝাড়গ্রাম, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Received: 28.07.2024 | Accepted: 05.09.2024 | Published Online: 30.09.2024 | Page No: 01-10 | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.10.issue.05W.001 | |||||||
ABSTRACT | ||
Sarat Chandra Chatterjee has portrayed female characters in Indian orthodox patriarchal society. He explained the pain and torment of lower-middle class women. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhy mentions many widows as “fallen women” in his literature. He is well known for mirroring the position of women and also drawing some strong sketches of women reflecting social issues as well as inequality and injustice meted out to them at that period of Bengal’s history. His empathetic concern for women and his keen insight into their minds has often been commented on and appreciated. This paper is concerned with constructing his women characters representing various strata of society. The women must have purity, virtue and integrity otherwise they become victimized by the conservative patriarchal society. Most of his women characters share an extraneous relationship with society. Sarat demonstrates the complex conundrums of widows’ sufferings, child-marriage, disease, poverty, public bias and fallen women’s victimization which focused his perception of social realism. He also satirically represents the prevalent system of child-marriage and dowry which has infested the so-called modern society asserts to bring the estimation of women at par with that of men. Keywords: Feminism, Virtue, Empowerment, Society, Suffering. |