Paneru, Nagendra Prasad2023-07-282023-07-282011https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/18748The present thesis entitled “Representation of Female Characters in Abhi Subedi’s Bruised Evenings” discusses the representation of women in the text. Female’s repressed desires are exposed in the text. In every bend of their lives, women encounter male domination and sometimes they are portrayed with the sense of resistance but at some other times they are represented as compromising with patriarchal regime. In the play two women characters, namely, Mayaju and Bhadrakali, initially, try to do away with patriarchy but at the end of the play they seem to be accepting it. Mayaju recieves freedom after she gets married with the traveller. Bhadrakali feels insecure in the absence of Bhairab and makes him stand beside her.en-USFemale charactersPatriarchal regimeThesis