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The Fourth Daughter is a short story that focusses on the problem areas regarding the plight of girl child, patriarchal mindset and regressive traditions which have chained women in our society tightly and have prevented them to break those chains mostly unconsciously. The irony is girls have learned to accept discrimination and many embrace it and successfully transplant them in their own girl children to continue this inhumanely chain of inequality. The story was written by Indian English woman author, Subhdra Sen Gupta in 1992. The story focusses on the theme of the story or the propaganda than the characterisation. The idea behind writing this story was to bring a subtle inherent perspective inquisition and change in the minds of the readers.  It is a story about the rich, priviledged, affluent Seth family. Radha, the daughter-in-law have yet again gave birth to a girl child, this news have brought withered sadness and rain of gloom with it. On top of that newborn have took upon th

  The Stone Angel - Introduction The Stone Angel is Hager Shipley’s personal account of the last few days of her life. The novel’s structure follows her imagination, it’s a full composition of her flashbacks occurring in a progressive chronological pattern and alternating with the present time. In the beginning of the novel, Hagar is blind, like the statue of the stone angel in the manawaka cemetery. Now, Hager lost her mother when she was born and since then the statue of the stone angel has been preventing the heritage in Manawaka, Manitoba. All her life Hager has been struggling in hiding her emotions from the world, she thinks that’s for someone weak. It’s a constant display of pride which drags her towards self-alienation, which is also one of the themes in the novel. Self sufficient isolation Hager didn’t had a matriarchal influence over her, rather she was under her father’s patriarchal influence, and in those times being materialistic and patriarchal went hand in hand w

[ https://www.amazon.in/House-Mr-Biswas-Picador-Collection/dp/1529077192 ] A House for Mr Biswas is a 1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul , It is the story of Mohun Biswas, a Hindu Indo-Trinidadian who continually strives for success and mostly fails, who marries into the influential Tulsi family only to find himself dominated by it, and who finally sets the goal of owning his own house. A house for Mr. Biswas can be analysed as a chronicle of socio-political changes that occurred in Trinidad over an extended period of time. Trinidad’s cultural and ethnic melange stems from its 500-year history of conquest and foreign occupation. Originally, the home of Amerindian peoples, the island was sighted in 1498 by Admiral Christopher Columbus, who claimed it for Spain. With the Spanish came thousands of European settlers and African slaves to develop the colony, driving out native peoples and dramatically transforming the landscape. By the 1790s the immigrant population, mainly French Catholics settle