A CRITICAL STUDY ON WOMEN CHARACTERS OF AMISH TRIPATHI’S SHIVA TRILOGY

Authors

  • Dr. Anup Nair Assistant Professor and Research Guide, Department of English, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara

Keywords:

Amish Tripathi, Shiva Trilogy, Indian culture, delineation of ladies’ characters and 'phantabula'

Abstract

Women are instructed, they work, represent themselves, arranging their life, spending time with men yet to each activity they battle, the vast majority of them neglect to do what they need; they depend on their family. Particularly in India, ladies acknowledge and adjust to this circumstance since birth. In the event that the writing turns its back to the history for these binds of ladies, in particular in India, the individuals' questionable disposition towards the fanciful stories, society stories, and legends is to be accused. The social structure and way of life of Indians depend on the religion sacred texts they put stock in. Individuals in India for the most part allude Mahabharata and Ramayana to build their lives. What's more, it is entirely expected to everybody's information that a few ladies in those writings are delineated to a great extent as merciless, desirous, moronic, subservient and delightful which are the reasons for pulverization. In contrast to different translators, Amish Tripathi, as the grandson of a Sanskrit researcher and Pandit in Benaras, adored ladies’ fanciful characters in his Shiva Trilogy. He appears power and fire from his ladies’ characters contrasting with male partners. The components of 'phantabula' (portmanteau of imagination and fantasy) were well-utilized; Amish has retold legend in his inventive manners, yet the substance of otherworldliness has not lost all through the arrangement.

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Published

15-05-2017

How to Cite

Dr. Anup Nair. (2017). A CRITICAL STUDY ON WOMEN CHARACTERS OF AMISH TRIPATHI’S SHIVA TRILOGY. International Education and Research Journal (IERJ), 3(5). Retrieved from https://ierj.in/journal/index.php/ierj/article/view/1058