• Dr.Kavitha Kandaswamy

This article examines the representation of women characters in Sidney Sheldon novels. It provides a practical outlook of the world focused on women’s power, position and profession. Women protagonist in his novels sanctions the conceptual strategies of change and developments in the socio-political contemporary situation. Sheldon’s women characters are seen as purveyors of modernity. Women characters are visualized as ‘success patterns’ in the contemporary situation of women’s freedom and power. Women characters in his novels explicitly make a quest for ‘self-identity’ in a male dominated world. The difficulties they encounter by their identity construction takes up a contextual analysis and interpretations of Feminism. The critical intercession approaches feminist’s theories of self, power, consciousness, individualism, and identity foregrounding the issues of women’s equality in the public and the political spheres. Women’s success is seen as a positive peace universally tied to human needs irrespective of sexual divisions saying “mind has no sex”.

Women, Women Characters, Feminism, Women Movement, Popular Fiction, High Brow, Low Brow, Literature, Self-identity, Individuality, Modernity etc.,

"Popular Fiction a New Vista in Literature: Critical Outlook on women Characters in Sidney Sheldon Novels ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no.a607-a617, September-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309072.pdf

"Popular Fiction a New Vista in Literature: Critical Outlook on women Characters in Sidney Sheldon Novels ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no. ppa607-a617, September-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309072.pdf