The Role of Women in Literature

The Role of Women in Literature

Author Name : Dr. K. Gayathri

ABSTRACT

In this research paper the writer has expressed the role of women and the identity of the female world that have been revealed in the English literature from the 20th century up to the modern age of 21st century. The paper has shown the evolution of women's characteristics after the ending of the First World War. This was the time that women learnt to come out of their comfort zone and they loved to break their old stereotyped nature which was incorporated in them by the male patriarchal society. The heroic approach or the powerful male identity has been diminished by multiple new women writers who had the feminist approaches in their minds. The paper has mainly mentioned the women writers like Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson and Katherine Mansfield. In the English literature of the early to mid-phase of 20th century one could see the perfect differentiation between man and women that has been made by multiple feminist writers. The paper has also shown that this was the time when the concept of feminism arrived in the writings. The aspects of female oppression by the male world have been pointed out in multiple literatures. The paper has also dealt with the condition of the contemporary Indian women in the Indian society depicted by the Indian women writers.