WOMEN DEPICTED IN 19TH CENTURY MAINSTREAM LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Abstract
Right from the beginning of the human civilization, ‘woman’ has never been considered
and treated as a full-fledged human-being. She has always been marginalized, exploited and
subjugated. Though, like ‘man’, she too is rational and intellectual, yet considered as secondary
and supporting to man. From the times immemorial, woman has been taught and molded in such a
way that without any complaint or protest she has been playing the roles assigned to her, just as a
puppet in the hands of patriarchal society.
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