Burden of Woman as Reflected in Upamanyu Chatterjee’s the Last Burden
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2016
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Marriage has always hecn a \ cry different thing for man and for woman. The two
sexes are necessary to each other, but this necessity has never brought out a
condition of reciprocit) between them; women as we have seen, have never
constituted a caste making exchanges and contracts with the male caste upon a
footing of equality. .A man is socially an independent and complete individual; he
is regarded first of all as a producer whose existence is justified by the work he
does for the group; we have seen why it is that the reproductive and domestic role
to which woman is confined has not guaranteed her an equal dignity. (Beauvoir:
-115-16)