• Gamaya K P
• Dr. M.S. Saritha

The Portrayal of Women Characters in Ishiguro’s Select Novels The winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist, screen-writer and lyricist of Japanese origin. He has been a recipient of a number of awards and honours including Booker Prize (1985), Order of British Empire (1898), Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1998), Order of the Rising Sun (2018). The female characters in the novels of Ishiguro exhibit highly complex behaviours. Certain characters face serious oppression yet stand strong, while others lose their minds. Therefore, these characters could be understood properly only if they are studied under feminism. The ideology of equal status for women in social, political and economic spheres is broadly termed as feminism. The theories about problems faced by women due to gender bias in the fields of politics and sociology are classified under feminism. Furthermore, all movements and struggles aimed at the betterment of women’s lives were brought under the umbrella of feminism. It can be classified into three periods. The first feminist wave was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the second was in the 1960s and 1970s, and the third extends from the 1990s to the present. This paper aims to study certain major female characters of Ishiguro from the novels, The Remains of the Day, A Pale View of Hills, When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go.

Feminism, Feminity, Feminine Psyche, Oppression.

"The Portrayal of Women Characters in Ishiguro’s Select Novels", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 1, page no.841-846, January-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908593.pdf

"The Portrayal of Women Characters in Ishiguro’s Select Novels", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 1, page no. pp841-846, January-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908593.pdf