• Dr. G. Subramanian
• L. Jeevitha

Abstract: The paper entitled "Women in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Light’s Out" aims to explore the playwright's projection of women in her plays. For this purpose three aspects are chosen for the study of image of woman in Manjula’s plays, the traditional woman, the rebellious woman and the new woman, who adopt their situations and act according. In Padmanabhan’s plays, we see a steady change in the female character. In other words, the character does not remain the same as she appears in the beginning. Padmanabhan's women are not extraordinary women. She does not portray them as good or evil characters, they have their strengths and weaknesses, and they have their good days and bad days. They are persistently trying to prove themselves in a man's world. Padmanabhan's image of women can be described in the words of C.K. Meena as she as mentioned in Unmasking the Middle Class that men he has drawn his women with great sympathy, but they are by no means saintly victims. Padmanabhan reveals the image of the transformed female, who is led from passive observance to tradition to its active rejection in order to become a woman thinking.

Keywords: Rebellious, Extraordinary women, Persistent, Observance.

"Women in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Light’s Out", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.187-190, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809525.pdf

"Women in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Light’s Out", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp187-190, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809525.pdf