Unconventional Love and Sexual Liberation: A Feminist Study of Namita Gokhale’s Paro: Dreams of Passion
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This paper attempts to explore the causes and consequences of love and sexual liberation in the women of Indian scenario in Namita Gokhale’s Paro: Dreams of Passion (1984). In the novel, Priya attempts to emancipate herself from marriage by manipulating the opposite sex but falls short of Paro’s level of freedom. She alternates between portraying an Indian wife and an adulteress. Paro’s is the narrative of a social butterfly who has been reduced to social shambles. The occurrences of her life demonstrate a reversal of man’s sexual freedom. She enslaves men with her beauty and sexuality and seduces every man she meets in her search for love. Excessive sexual liberation reaches a point when it is resisted. Her riches devolve into misfortune. Gokhale herself, Priya and Paro, all have dreams of passion, which cannot materialize.
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