Gender Trauma in MahtabNarsimhan’sThe Third Eye
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2018-04
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Faculty of Art in English
Abstract
The novel The Third Eye, is about culturaland gender traumaand its
consequent behavior and manners of characters in the novel. The thesis emphasizes
the traumatic experience of all characters and gender traumatic feeling of women.
Trauma is the situation in which the suffered people want to adopt the new life style
but they cannot do so because it takes them to the past. Thus, the novel focuses on the
characters who are suffering from the traumatic situations.
The main purpose of the research is to find traumatic situation in The Third
Eye which is about a family, across three generations. It tells the story of Tara’s
family who believe in a traditional business, Tara always have the feeling of fear and
past. The older members of the family like to follow traditional manner while new
generation likes to adopt new ones. Therefore, instead of branching out, the brothers
remain apprenticed to the struggling shop, female characters, on the other hand, have
to fight against patriarchal society. They are not allowed to do anything against the
willingness of the male characters in the novel. They do not like to live with the family
helping the Tara's identity but she cannot. Thus, she decides to cope up with the male
character's business.
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Gender Trauma, Indian Village, Identity