Emotional Aspects of Conflicts of Women in Shashi Deshpande’s ‘A Matter of Time’ and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s ‘Sister of My Heart’

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Navita (Govt. Girls Senior Secondary School, Madina, Rohtak, Haryana)

Although diverse cultures, societies and situations make women diverse in nature, but there are certain issues which are universal to the whole of womankind. A woman of any origin, belonging to any strata of society goes through emotional upheavals in her life. In her work The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan who is regarded as the harbinger of the second wave of American feminism throws light on the fact that women, who apparently have everything to make them happy and comfortable, fail to trace the source of dissatisfaction and the cause of the emotional distress that they suffer. Friedan believes that this happens because women can not gratify their basic needs, and can not fulfil their desires or exist as human beings.