IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

APPALLING JOURNEY AND TYRANNIC CULTURE OF THE TRIBAL IN BAPSI SIDHWA’S THE PAKISTANI BRIDE

Main Article Content

M.P. Jemima, Dr. S. Sunitha

Abstract

Bapsi Sidhwa, as a renowned Parsi writer, poignantly portrays the appalling journey and tyrannic culture of the tribal in the novel The Pakistani Bride. She is a leading diasporic writer of Pakistan and she reflects her personal experience through her novels. In the novel, The Pakistani Bride Sidhwa writes about the women of Lahore who are troubled by oppression in many ways. She depicts the theme of sexual violence and marginalization of women. Zaitoon, the protagonist of the novel The Pakistani Bride begins her traumatic journey and enter into the primitive world ruled by robbers and cruel tribal patriarchs. Women in the tribal region are treated as child bearing machines with no identity, freedom and dignity. They are treated as objects for sexual pleasure. Mushtaq the Major tells her about the brutal and savage nature of Kohistani people. After marriage she experiences the torture physically and psychologically. She decides to flee from the world of tribal people and thus undergoes pain, cold, hunger and endless agonies. she is also raped by a couple of beastly men and her struggle for survival ends when Mushtaq finds her half alive and half dead and takes her to the camp and informed the tribal people that she is raped and killed. Through this novel, Sidhwa exposes the exploitation and enslavement of women all over the world. Hence Sidhwa focuses Zaitoon as a representation of women battling against the patriarchal society by exhibiting her invincible spirit. The present study analyses the struggle of the protagonist, Zaitoon to survive in the harsh and hostile environment. Zaitoon is a representative of women fighting against the patriarchal society. She tries to fight with the tribal culture and forces of conventional morality but at last destroyed by the power of men. She does exhibit her invincible spirit to fight against the patriarchy.

Article Details