A Study of Marital Rape in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors

Abstract

Our society is merely based on the relationship of man and woman. Shashi Deshpande is also much aware of changing man-woman relationship in the modern society. But she especially underlines the predicament of those helpless and tortured women who are not carefully handled by their callous husbands after their marriage. It causes failure of marriage which leads to frustration and frustration ends with insanity, alienation, murder suicide, etc. In India, a woman after marriage is supposed to be concerned only to the household of the house, feels delighted to this wife cut affairs for a successful marriage. husband, the boss of the house, feels delighted to cut his wife off from the main stream of life because of his traditional bent of mind. Whenever a woman dares to step out of her confine, she has to struggle against the fixed image of women in the minds of men.