Feminism and Women’s Bonding in Shashi Deshpande’s the Binding Vine

Abstract

Society and literature have always had a deep and enduring link. It has seen how women’s roles have evolved throughout time, and that development additionally influenced how women are portrayed in literature. Writings from the present day depict not just the oppressed and disenfranchised women but additionally the ‘new women’, who are always attempting to become independent, self-aware individuals. The privileged middle-class environment is portrayed by the author in this book. She still finds the sense of injustice and brutality she encounters in the world upsetting. Her natural incapacity to adjust to her social environment is a handicap. The following feminism-related themes are examined by the researcher in this novel-the necessity of hindrance in life, the impact of childhood trauma on adult personality traits, parental division, and alienation, the impact of childhood being homeless and the ensuing anxiety, distraction, regression to childhood, a state of isolation, and frustration of city life, lack of communication between partners, unpredictable contradictions, as well as brutality in life. Deshpande’s novel The Binding Vine, middle-class Indian women of today, both professional and illiterate, grapple with the challenge of realizing their own identities and reestablishing their familial bonds. The author portrays women’s lives in this book as they are much like in her previous works.