Shattered Dreams and Identity Crisis: A Critical Analysis of Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife
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Diaspora, Identity Crisis, Shattered Dreams, Tragedy, Destructive ImpulseAbstract
The Earth is a place to live in for all the creatures. Human beings have controlled on many natural activities due to his advance of science and technology. Going from one place to another place has been made very easy. Bharati Mukherjee has been in the news recently because her demise on 28th January, 2017 has given a big shock to her fans, students, colleagues and even critics. She has taken the theme of gender discrimination, cultural clash and identity crisis in her novels. Her novels deal with the issues of the dreams which shattered on an alien land. People go to a foreign land with so many colourful dreams in their minds but they do not think about the challenges of a foreign land where culture, language, eating habits etc. are totally different. Present chapter is an analysis of Bharati Mukherjee’s novel Wife. This novel has emerged as a saga of unfulfilled dreams of a wife Dimple Das Gupta who is a very ambitious woman. She lives in an imaginary world beyond her limitations and above the reality of the earthly life. The works results as a tragedy when she murders her own husband and thinks that nobody will surrender her like the TV serials. Thus, this paper explores the whims of Dimple and her broken dreams in this novel.
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