DECIPHERING THE DOMESTIC LABYRINTH OF EXISTENTIAL WOMEN

Machismo, backward practices and domestic catastrophe are primordial issues to be dealt with an open eye. The paper “Epitome of an Existential women: with reference to the select novels of Shashi Deshpande”, critically explores and analyses how the protagonists seek identity as an autonomous self with fortitude and dignity through metamorphosis and evolution, eventually probing into the themes of existentialism. The fear of rejection in a new environment fetters the women in an intangible emotional situation and this stimulate the tormented women to find their own voice thereby continuously strive in search of self-definition. These Existential Women experiences the journey towards self-exploration by easing themselves from the tangles of their troubles and torment, they aspire and always rise triumphant, not vanquished and they emerge rejuvenated not refurbished which symbolizes the protagonist’s attempt to forge for herself a new identity laced with wisdom.