Fragile Marital Relationship Sudha Murthy’s ‘Mahashweta’, ‘Gently Falls The Bakulla’, and ‘House Of Cards’

Abstract

This paper critically examines the fragile and weakens marital relationship of Sudha Murthy’s character. Sudha Murthy is a contemporary female novelist. She is a technocrat with most innovative and skillful writing. Sudha Murthy projects the images of modern Indian woman who is protagonist and career oriented woman. But in patriarchal society woman are dominated by male. Women suppress their dreams and desire for family but when she is ignored by her husband their marital relation becomes fragile. The present illustrates how the insulted, rejected,ignoredwoman tries to break themarital relation and left their husband to live happy and free life. Sudha Murthy has presented such a fragile marital relationship in her three novels ‘Mahashweta’, ‘Gently Falls the Bakula’ and ‘House of Cards’. Sudha Murty presents good relation between husband and wife but it is destroyed by whimsical, hypocritical and selfish behavior of males. False appearance of male character has spoil the trust in marriage. Trust is a very necessary for any relationship.