• Dr Pooja Malik

Manju Kapur is a name in the realm of modern feminist fiction which needs no introduction. She is an author who has given a new direction to the feminism through her novels. In this paper there is an analysis has been attempted of the second novel of Manju Kapur, entitled as A Married Woman in the perspective of the mental agony and suffocation of a married woman in the closed Indian society. A Married Woman is set in the time when women were considered to stay within the four walls of the house and the utmost priority of a woman’s life was to prove herself as a good wife and a responsible daughter-in-law, along with the other relations of her life. The protagonist of this novel Astha is a victim of this contemporary stereotype of the closed Indian society. Astha tries to break the shackles of the womanhood, thrust upon her on the name of being a daughter, wife daughter-in-law, and mother. Astha is the symbol of that generation of women when they were supposed to keep a mum in all the phases of their lives. The character of Astha personifies the mental agony of the married women in Indian society.

Feminism, Closed Society, Mental Agony, Protagonist etc

"Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman: A Personified Agony", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no.a475-a479, May-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305065.pdf

"Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman: A Personified Agony", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no. ppa475-a479, May-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305065.pdf