Treatment of Women in Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction

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Megha Khandelwal

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It is correctly said that if one wants to know the status of a socity, he or she should scrutinize its women. Women in every age, society, faith and religion have been suppressed and marginalized. They are thrown in purdah (veil) and bound with several restrictions. In majority, they are circumscribed only for household chores and breeding children since ancient age. They are regarded as unholy, burden, pitiable, dependent and fearful of sex. The Parsi women also share such qualities of treatment which is full of limited and reductive world like of their Hindu and Muslim sisters in India. Mistry’s Parsi female characters are not much developed but they are stereotypes in their own ways. They are also the victims of child marriages, truncated schoolings and multiple child births. They too come under the category of repressed women. They are harmed by the oppressive world of male domination which automatically circumscribes female space.

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