WOMEN’S CONFLICT AGAINST VULNERABILITY: WITH REFERENCE TO MANJU KAPUR’S HOME AND IMMIGRANT (Pages 38-45) by Pawan Pratap Singh in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

Women authors, writing in India or abroad in English, address from various points of view the dilemmas in the lives of women. Kapur was an excellent painter of her characters. Her basic approach is to freewomen from the patriarchy’s oppressive measures. Therefore, the protagonists in her works suffer physical, emotional and psychological suffering, but are ultimately able to achieve their long established freedom to a great extent. She wishes to live as a human being who is independent and self-reliant, not as a subjugated and oppressed woman. As they are not what they should be, she introduced stuff. Her main concern is female identity, not only in her one work, but almost in all works. She was advocating for the female cause and attempting to get them out of society's conventional norm. Manju Kapur is one of English's most popular Indian female authors. She has joined the rising number of modern Indian women writers who have contributed significantly to Indian novels' progression. The role of women in a patriarchal society is profoundly viewed by Kapur and addresses the problems of women. Her novels present women's longing struggle to construct an identity. The patriarchal constraints and demands to claim their identity and achieve self-satisfaction and self-fulfilment in her life are crushed and established by her female protagonists. In her works, a feminist tradition is clearly evident. Manju Kapur speaks for the middle-class family, and for her sharp-eyed, eventually turned character portraits that are trapped in tricky circumstances, some similarities with Jane Austen have also been received. Keywords: dilemmas, liberate, oppressive, patriarchal society, cherished, self-satisfaction, tricky situations etc.