Profession : A Tool for Transformation in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors
Keywords:
Character, Personality, Profession, RealizationAbstract
Shashi Deshpande's novels are mainly concerned with the self-assertion and loneliness of woman. Her
chief concern is human relations, not the traditional but the new redefined human relations especially
the relationship between man and woman. She portrays the new Indian woman and her dilemma. She
concerns herself with the plight of the modern Indian woman trying to understand herself and to
preserve her identity as wife, mother, and professional and above all as human being. Shashi
Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors is a tremendously powerful portrayal of a woman's fight to
survive in a world that offers no easy way out. Sarita, the protagonist uses her profession to overcome
her dilemma.
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(2) Deshpande, Shashi, The Dark Holds No Terrors, (1980, Delhi: Penguin, 1990). All subsequent references in parentheses in the article are to this edition of the novel.
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