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A Search For Identity in Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God
A Search For Identity in Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God
A Search for
or Identity in Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God
V. Sangeetha B. Suganthi
Assistant Professor, Department of English MA English,
English
Nadar Saraswathi College off Arts and Science, Nadar Saraswathi College of Arts and Science,
Vadaputhupathi, Theni, Tamilnadu
adu, India Vadaputhupathi, Theni,, Tamilnadu , India
ABSTRACT
Margaret Laurence is a prolific and distinguished as well as a movement that advocates gender equality
novelist hailing from Canada; she focuses on the fixes for women and campaigns for women's rights and
of women and efforts to give an individuality to the welfares. The comprehensive idea of feminism refers
Canadian women. The theme of resolution resides a to the belief that men and women merit parity in all
essential place in the novels of Margaret Laurence occasions, treatment, respect, and social rights. In
who hails from Scots-IrishIrish circumstantial of firm broad, feminists are people who try to admit social
standards and hard work and Puritanism. In her disparity
isparity based on gender and stop it from unending.
Manawaka novels, Laurence has given us Feminists point out that in most cultures during
unforgettable
le portraits of women wrestling with their history men have conventional more occasions than
private demons, striving through introspection to find women.
meaningful patterns, in their lives. A jest of god is one
of the Manawaka novels. The story of woman’s life is “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality
not radically different from traditional patter patterns. and full humanity of women and men.”
Rachel suffer a lot because of problems of women and - Gloria Steinem
the identity in society.
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CONCLUSION:
BIBILOGRAPHY:
Pandey Sudhakar “Perspective on Canadian
Fiction” New Delhi: Prestige Books Publisher,
1994
Laurence, Margaret. A Jest of God. Chicago: U of
Chicago Press, 1966.Print.
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