A Comparative Study Of Female Protagonists In The Novels Of Arundhati Roy And Kiran Desai

Abstract

Through the prism of Erikson's and Marcia's psychosocial perspectives, this
paper seeks to examine the subject of identity in the novels under consideration. We can
learn more about the complexities of human identity and the different variables that shape
it by looking at the experiences and conflicts with the identification of the female
protagonists. Female characters frequently take center stage in identity crisis discussions
written by women writers. No two female characters have been presented as admirably as
those in Arundhati Roy and Anita Desai.
In Roy's novels The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
(2017), prominent women characters with identity crises are shown to include Ammu,
Rahel, Kochamma, Mammachi, Kalyani, Tilottama, Maryam Ipe, Jahanara Begum, Zainab,
Loveleen Kaur, Sangeeta Madam, and Revathy. In the same way, the quest for identification
is important to Desai's female characters, such as Kulfi and Pinky in Hullabaloo in the Guava
Orchard (1998) and Bela, Sai, Noni, and Lola in The Inheritance of Loss (2006).