‘ The Journey of a Woman through Three Generations: A Study of Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night’.

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Indian scriptures mythologize a woman as a worshiping entity; however, patriarchal society has paradoxical social conduct to offer to woman. Literary discourses fuse myths and lore with realty with a view to excavate the hypocritical approach of the society towards woman. The myths are the specific elements or the techniques which represent the feminist ideology in this novel. Women, especially in the role of mothers and grandmother, show concern in encouraging their daughters to follow the stereotypes. The women are torn between tradition and modernity while trying to shape their lives in their own ways in reality; in so doing, they recall and, in a way, reinterpret the great myths recorded in Sanskrit: the Mahabharata and the Ramayana to show changes in the relationship between the sexes. This paper will examine the fusion of myths, lore and reality to demythologize the ideal image of woman. The paper will analyze the feminist elements in Thousand Faces of night by Geeta Hariharan.

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