Social Change in Transgender People as Shown in the Novel

Abstract

Literature is also a medium through which the diverse lifestyles of human society have been fully and partially recorded from the earliest times. In the early literatures the main characters were men from the upper class of the society. The early literatures recorded the marginalized people of lower strata but their lifestyle and social changes were not recorded, rather the literature showed such people in the light of being ridiculed and enslaved by the upper class. In the course of time, literature also had changes as many literary works evolved to shed light on the different sections of society and also the marginalized people. The novels titled Vaadamalli, Moondram Paalin Mugam, Punitham Thedum Puthinam figures transgenders as the protagonist who are also a marginalized section of the society. The essence of this dissertation is to illustrate the social changes in the lives of transgenders such as being accepted by parents and the community, continuing education without lagging, being employed, getting police assistance, and participating in multidisciplinary ways through the novels.