Alisha Ansari

Affiliation: Rainbow Home Programs, Delhi, India

Email: [email protected]

Abstract: Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night portrays women as vulnerable individuals craving for love and understanding, while all the time being victims of their own gender. It basically articulates the problems of women, the basics of Indian Mythology and yokes together the various vicissitudes faced by the women of the puranas. It is the life struggle of Devi, who was returned from America after completing her degree and confined in the prison-housed of arranged marriage, the constricting environment of which make her feel trapped. The life of the Woman Devi was supported and exemplified by taking the stories of other women who were entrapped in such male power structures and their dealing and coping mechanisms in the existing circumstances.

Keywords: Gender Roles; Indian Culture; Power Structures; Marriage Hood.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.55032/ATSKj.psychol.2020.1202