An Exploration of Female Subjugation and Sense of Resistance in Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy-Man

Abstract

The present research on Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy -Man (1947) explores and exposes the pathetic condition of female during the partition of India. It focuses upon pathetic condition of female from which they get liberated at the end of the novel. In the novel, all the female characters including the protagonists Ayah and Lenny are dominated in the name of religion, sex, politics, culture. The reason behind their suppression is that, male values dominant society, where females are forcefully given such qualities. Third world women are dominated by this sexiest society but they tend to liberate themselves by revolting against patriarchal values. Ayah is a representative revolutionary character who revolts by ignoring 'Ice-candy- man' at the end of the novel. Finally, she gets freedom from the patriarchal clap-trap.