Open AccessThe Quest for Female Identity in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors
Author(s) -
Shilpa Sarkar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
smart moves journal ijellh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-4406
pISSN - 2582-3574
DOI - 10.24113/ijellh.v8i4.10544
Subject(s) - identity (music) , brother , psychoanalysis , focus (optics) , great rift , psychology , sociology , aesthetics , art , physics , astronomy , anthropology , optics
Dark Holds No Terror is the second published novel of Shashi Deshpande. Saru, the protagonist of the novel is a well-educated doctor. This study is about her relationship with her parents, brother, how her life changes before and after marriage. Throughout the novel, she suffers mentally, physically and spiritually. She was a neglected child since her childhood. This paper focus on how the protagonist deal with the problems and finally discovers her real identity.