Analysis of Psychological and Verbal Pattern of Female Protagonists in Anita Desai's Fiction

Abstract

Anita Desai likes to reach the depth of human psyche. Anita Desai discards the traditional, worn out eternal realism and dives deep into the minds of her protagonists to examine the values and principles that they live by. Even when she probes man’s relationship with his socials milieu, her stress falls on her characters’ private instincts and intuitions, feelings and emotions. All her characters are shown on one hand struggling with the changed realities of Indian life. In their neurotic condition they fail to adjust themselves to the harsh realities of life and they react aggressively and sometimes they don’t react and agree to strike a compromise with their situation after getting no other way. But both situations cause psychological disturbance and this is the case with Anita Desai’s protagonists.