Critique of Patriarchal Ideology in Rudra Raj Pandey’s Rupamati

Abstract

InRupamati, Rudraraj Pandey reproduces the patriarchal ideology by creating its protagonist, Rupmati as a wife who is portrayed as an “ideal” “goddess; one who is able to endure every kind of torture inflicted upon her by the society to win over all evil at the end. She is married at her childhood and forbears abusive and brutal Buhartan of her mother-in-law, is neglected by her husband in the beginning and takes the burden of keeping the tradition intact by bringing Ravilal’s family on tract at the cost of the peace of land bequeathed her father.