The term ‘feminism’ was first used by the French dramatist Alexander Dumas, the younger, in 1872 in a pamphlet ‘L’Hommefemme,’ to designate the-then emerging movement for women’s rights. It gradually emerged to be world-wide cultural movement to secure a complete equality of women with men in the enjoyment of all human rights – moral, religious, social, political, education, legal, and economic and so on. Feminism as an extension of existentialism gets echoed in world literature. Indian English fiction is no exception to this. This existential struggle to establish one’s identify, to assert one’s individuality and the desperate fight to exist as a separate entity appears in all its intensity in the novels of women writers. Key Words: feminism, self-hatred, female shrillness, stridency conspicuous, marital discord etc.