Widowhood in War

Abstract

Women represent their own stories. In times of war, personal story of a woman becomes a parallel account to that of the national conflict. Rehana, the protagonist of “A Golden Age” by Tahmima Anam, struggles and survives as a mother and as a widow in the war. She grows politically aware as her children grow as freedom fighters. She drowns into the male stream against her will. As an ordinary woman, she is caught up in the extraordinary times. This paper shows how a woman overcomes the dilemma in supporting her children’s involvement in war and in fear of their security. This paper will also compare the psychology of the protagonist with the Id psychic zone of Freud.