Bharati Mukherjee's Wife - A Catastrophe Of Unmet Hallucination

S. R. Karpagam, Dr. B. R. Veeramani

Abstract


The novel 'Wife' by Bharati Mukherjee is examined as a tragedy caused by unmet dreams. Dimple, the heroine of 'wife,' looks to be a person who lives in an imagined world, beyond reality, where she fantasizes about a beautiful spouse and a perfect life, but when her fantasies come true, she finds herself in a situation where she must choose between her. Unsatisfied, she murders her husband, believing that, as she witnessed in the movie, no one will ever catch her for murder. In the majority of serials as a result, 'Wife' can be interpreted as a tragedy brought about by unmet dreams of an imbalanced personality.


Keywords


Fancy, Americanization, Destructive Impulse, Identity, Dissociated Personality.

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References


Mukherjee, Bharati. Wife, Delhi: Sterling, 1976.

Horney, Karen. Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-realization. 1951; rpt. London: Routlege and Kegan Poul, 1965.

Jain, Jasbir. “Foreignness of Spirit: the world of Bharati Mukherjee‟s Novels,” The Journal of Indian Writings in English 13 .2 (July 1989):15


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