A Feminist Perspective

Ice-Candy-Man A Feminist Perspective * compend In Ice-Candy-Man the women characters cannot be easily subjugated. Lenny, her Ayah Shanta, her mother and Godmother are capable of advanced roles and responsibilities. It is the second novel by a woman writer transaction with the theme of Partition of India. It is likely to be a more achromatic on account of the traumatic event of Partition which caused divisiveness, disharmony, mutual suspicion, hardening. source depicts the events overtaking the Partition in their naked cruelty and ruthlessness.She choose a theme which is different from the traditional issuesthe issues of romantic involvements and the sentimental stuff. In Pakistan the dance step of freedom for women is considerably less than it exists in India. In this novel young-bearing(prenominal) psyche and experiences are presented with a unique freshness. Bapsi Sidhwa uses the structural device and turns the womanish protagonists into the moral centre, while most of the m ale characters either remain so-so(p) or indulge in destructive violence. In patriarchal favorable set up masculinity means superiority while womanhood means inferiority.Masculinity implies strength, action, self-assertion and domination, femininity implies weakness, passivity, docility, obedience and self-negation. Through narrator Lenny the Bapsi Sidhwa lends slant and validity to the feminine perspective on the nature of surrounding reality. In a feminist text woman performs and controls and promotes the action by her industrious involvement and concern and in the process it is she who acquires the attributes of heroism and glory. In Ice-Candy-Man, Lennys relationship with her cousin upholds the principle of equality Ayah is a flame of sensuousness and female vitality.Lennys mother and Lennys aunt play the humanitarian and heroic role of engagement for the lives and property of Hindus. These two women undertake the risky job of saving lives in danger. Godmothers sense of hum or, her deer-like agility, in spite of her old age, and her power to mould, interchange and order not only individuals but even the system, when she so desires, pull her respect and admiration of people around her. But besides these qualities she is empower with profound understanding of human existence and her wisdom is revealed when she consoles the Ayah, in the slipstream of what has been done to her.Godmother concentrates in her character what the feminists feel is very important for a woman to realize her individuality the feeling of self-worth. Khushwant Singhs Train to Pakistan is manifestly a male discourse the focus is on the hero, Juggut Singh though he is visualized as a devil, the writers sympathy and admiration are obviously for him his jauntiness, his somatogenetic stature and for his moral stature. Ice-Candy-Man becomes a feminist text in the consecutive sense of the term, successfully attempting to bring to the centre-stage the female protagonists who come ali ve on account of their realistic presentation.As Literature is a powerful tool with the dish up of which creative writer modulate and change the society. Sidhwa depict the theme in which he discusses those determined women for whom the traditional role is inadequate, women who wish to affirm their emancipation and autonomy and are perfectly capable of assuming new roles and responsibilities. Writers ever so wish to build a world which is free of dominance and hierarchy, a world that rests on the principles of justice and equality and is truly human.