Structuring Woman’s World to Reinforce Man’s Culture: A Critical Study of Tagore’s The Home and the World

Abstract

Tagore’s The Home and the World structures women’s world to reinforce man’s culture. It holds traditional views about women in a patriarchal society. It also portrays how a woman is unfit to struggle and live in man’s world or society. This novel while reading through a feminist perspective supports traditional values and expectations of Indian male-made culture. It reinforces the beliefs and values of traditional patriarchal society by showing woman character as inherently inferior and vulnerable. It means if a woman tries to cross the boundary of the home, it creates disaster, and a woman who tries to defy the social order will be destroyed at last. Women cannot survive in the outer world. It is the home which safeguards women. The failure of female character in the novel shows the concept of female’s inferiority in masculine writing and in society in general.