Reading Marginal Voices: A Feminist Discourse in Narayan's Dark Room and Ibsen's a Doll's House

The marginalization of women is the result of gender discrimination and violence.People have entered into modern world but still they are not able to come out from their stereotype thinking in relation to women.The world has made progress in every sphere but still people consider women as a secondary object and inferior to men.In Indian scripture the status of 'Shakti' is given to female, so God gave her responsibility to carry the creation ahead.But in reality the situation is just opposite of it and every time males try to dominate the females and suppress their voice.They have framed them within certain limits and boundations and because of it they cannot take their decision themselves.In this patriarchal society, their wishes are controlled by their husbands and other males of the family.The issues of marginalization, violence, and gender discrimination were major challenges and they all combined together made female's condition pathetic day by day.Females could not remain ignorant for a long time against this marginalization and raised voice for their rights.They rediscovered themselves and made their honorable status by freeing themselves from orthodoxies and staunch traditions.The aim of the present paper is to evaluate R.K Narayan's The Dark Room and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House from feminist perspective.At the same time this paper tries to show that how the female protagonists of these two literary works rediscovered themselves and emerged from a marginalized being to a strong and self-aware woman.