• Manoj CR

Abstract: Alienation is a worldwide existential predicament. It is an inevitable fact of in every human existence. Generally, this alienation as a human condition is frequently applicable to the man, the patriarch of society whereas woman as the ‘second sex’ and the ‘alienated’. The works of Alice Munro explore the protagonists’ personal agonies and traumas that arise out of alienation which leads to the subsequent state of emotional deliriums they endure leading to dissolution of marriage. Alice Munro is a well-regarded Canadian woman short-story writer. In her magnificently textured stories, she travels around the distinction of relationships and the profundity of emotions. For her literary contribution, she won Nobel Prize in 2013. This paper seeks to analyze the much neglected aspect of the woman as alienated with particular reference to Alice Munro’s Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. It was published in 2001 and consists of nine short stories. These stories are travel around the different themes like broken relationships of the characters with separation, isolation and alienation. The loneliness itself is believed to be felt by the women protagonists and it is the main idea used by the author, Munro. The main women characters in this collection Jimmy, Johanna, Lorna, Nina, Queenie and Grant seem to feel lonely at the beginning of the stories and later at the end they are abetting to achieve what they want. In the conclusion the study has discussed how to prevail over their loneliness to get compassion and how they have maintained good relationship with others. Thus the issue of loneliness that leads to eventual happiness.

Keywords: Alienation, estrangement, relationship, analysis, loneliness, compassion, happiness.

"Woman as Alienated: A Study of Alice Munro’s Hate ship, Friendship, Courtship, Love ship, Marriage.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.652-656, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905Y91.pdf

"Woman as Alienated: A Study of Alice Munro’s Hate ship, Friendship, Courtship, Love ship, Marriage.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp652-656, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905Y91.pdf