Resistance and it’s Failure in The Dark Room

Abstract

The Dark Room draws the image of women’s insecure stipulation that eventually compels them to bow down before the patriarchy and adopts the course paved by the males despite their numerous efforts and desires. Savitri fails to stay behind outside home and create her own world that could help her to liberate her from the tyrannical bond of associations. She in fact resists a lot to conquer complications that snag the world of liberty but gets mistreated in the world where male dogma overpowers. Her resistance against Ramani’s coercion and repression does not limit to her individual matter but is against the entire male community where women are bound to yield before the social constructs as feminine roles such as the mother, wife and daughter of someone. In fact in Indian society women are made to live sacrificing lives at the cost of their delight and joy and similarly they do so throughout their life and without thinking of them. Whatever they do is prone to advantage their relatives and kin and kiths. Leaving house and family is her confrontation against the male. At the same time her reluctance to accept any sort of charity is the wakefulness of her selfhood. But the patriarchy does not permit her to remain independent and alien in the world of liberation. This is why Savitri fails to create her separate identity and live on her own income. Eventually her return to the patriarchy discloses the fact that her resistance becomes fruitless and proves worthless in the male-dominated society.