Critical Analysis of The Novel Blue Mimosa from Feminist Perspective

Abstract

The present study entitled A Critical Analysis of the Novel ‘Blue Mimosa’ from Feminist Perspective is an attempt to identify and analyze feminist issues in terms of gender discrimination, inequality, patriarchy, gender roles, and political and social factors in the fiction Blue Mimosa. This is done through the help of feminist perspectives like social/Marxist and radical/liberal toachieve the objectives and to reach in findings and conclusion of the study. This study embodies different issues related extractions as sample to analyze and interpret the issues (domination, gender role, patriarchy, perception and socio-political factors) in feminism. The research was done using qualitative research design.The required data were collected by using purposive non-random sampling procedure, detail-study of novel, underlining, classification of extracts and selecting theme based issues from the novel. Similarly, collected data were analyzed and interpreted by using argument, description, Interpretation, subjective analysis to find out result on the basis of themes. This study concluded women are still limited under the supremacy of patriarchal society. They do not have given proper opportunity in education, trade, job and politics though they are fighting for liberalism in the society.Women are taken as a class they are trying to create equal identity but they are not empowered from socio-political side. Moreover, women are exploited, discriminated and dominated highly because of sociopolitical factors, patriarchy, traditional practices and perception of society towards them. They are deprived from using their full freedom as men. This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the background, introduction of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter consists of the review of related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the study, and conceptual framework. In the similar vein, the third chapter includes design of the study, sample and sampling strategy, data collection tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis method and ethical consideration. The fourth chapter is concerned with the analysis and interpretation of the data and findings. The fifth chapter leads conclusions, implications and eventually; the study contains references and appendices.