Women
"Hindu goddesses are traditionally conceived to be strong figures,even indomitable ones. By comparing his female characters to these goddesses, Rushdie attributes them with a force of character.He perceives India as a matriarchy, where maternal power, energy, and love is the means to social cohesion." (Jennifer Takhar) Durga, the washerwoman who had nursed Saleem's son in his sickness, is an important figure in Saleem's life. As we understand from the description of her (pg:445), she is a powerful woman who is an opposite image of the docile Indian woman. She may be representing the power that is repressed in these women. Saleem fears her as she symbolizes the hope that he has lost. " Her name, even before I met her, had the smell of new things; she represented novelty, beginnings, the advent of new stories, events, complexities, and I was no longer interested in anything new." (pg:445) She is again the one who foretold Saleem's death. So, these kind of women as witches inspired fear in Saleem. Like Durga, Parvati-the-witch, who is Shiva's wife, is another important figure. She causes in creating their child which is necessary for the continuation. Mother was seen as a nation. There is parallelism between continuity of nation th
" The body is homogeneous as anything. London: Granta Books, 1991) And this statement teaches the migrants that reality is an artifact and it doesn't exist until it is made and it can be made well or badly, and it can also be unmade, like women did to Saleem. When Padma shows interest on her face, Saleem speeds on telling his story. " (pg:38) In short, women had important role in Saleem's life. It is a poison which is also a cure; both nourishing, reviving, perserving and also poisonous,destructive. That is why, according to me, she is the most important character in this novel. What you were is forever who you are. Saleem is afraid of them also because although they create him as nation creates men; they also prepare the fall of men. They are the mothers, the creators of men. When we come to other women in Saleem's life, for example Mary Pereira. She encourages him to write which is the only gift Sallem has for continuity, preservation. And if we relate this to the "women" ,as we said women are the creators and they are connected to past, there is no escape from it and when it involves naughtiness and things like a child fears. As they are feared, they can unmake men.
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