Delineation of Female Characters in the Select Novels of Chetan Bhagat

Abstract

Feminist movements have campaigned and continued to campaign for womenand#8223;s rights including the right to vote, to hold public office, to work, to earn fair wages as well as equal pay and eliminate the gender pay gap. They fought to own property, to receive education, to enter contracts, to have equal rights within marriage, and to have maternity leave. Feminists have also worked to ensure access to legal abortion and social integration and to protect women and girls from rape, sexual harassment, and domestic violence. Changes in dress and acceptable physical activity have often been a part of feminist movements. newlineSome scholars consider the feminist campaigns to be a main force behind major historical-societal changes for womenand#8223;s rights, particularly in the West, where they are universally credited of achieving womenand#8223;s suffrage, gender-neuter language, reproductive rights for women (including access to contraceptives and abortion), and the right to enter into contracts and to own property. newlineThe present age is an age of globalization and modernization. In this context Chetan Bhagat has delineated his female characters. His female characters are not so weak, fragile and presenting goodness as mother nature , as Simone de Beauvoir states in her book The Second Sex (1949), but they are rebels against the social protocols. They have protested against the society to demand their rights, equal status and freedom. His female protagonists remind us the female characters of G.B. Shaw for their vigour and vitality and the natural female instinct. His novels are set in the hustle and bustle of metropolitan Indian cities. With the growing urbanization and globalization, a number of opportunities newlinevi newlinehave been opened up all around. Men and women are no more seen through the old spectacles which mark men as superior and women as inferior. In this global atmosphere so far be little, women have been given their due place and respect about their own intellect and abilities. They are seen to be working by joining their shoulder to sho