Gender Discrimination in Shashi Deshpande’s the Dark Hold No Terrors

Abstract

Gender discrimination is swiftly becoming the center of contemporary talk of many national and international platforms. Women's power and efficiency could not be noticed, found or even imagined earlier in the professional area of work.
Shashi Deshpande researches predicaments of the Indian women of middle-class society and their struggle to adopt in it without trying in getting freedom from its tradition. She creates mass awareness against oppression and suppression of the women in the strict patriarchal society. Women are considered to be enslaved, banned and weakened as fewer opportunities are offered to them for the betterment of life despite and conscious about the wellbeing of family members. Man never likes woman to have equal share, as he is enjoying all the privileges in the family and the society. Since that time, a woman has lived under the care and control of her parents or husband or her children. She is considered a property of her father; when she marries, she is transferred to be the property of her husband. A married woman is expected to be obedient, silent, docile, and submissive and is supposed to be chaste. The conflicts between traditional upbringings and the force of education and employment are sufficiently described in The Dark Holds No Terrors.