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Jannatul Ferdous Asha
ABSTRACT
The patriarchal society often tries to suppress women both physically and psychologically. This patriarchal notion sabotages women to attain their own desires and restricts women to create their individual identity. However, women are struggling to break the shackles of deceptive social norms to establish themselves as individual beings to attain their subjectivity. Aparna Sen’s film Paromitar Ek Din explores the suppression of male centered society on three major female characters and shows Paromita’s effort to attain her own subjectivity by delineating Shanaka and Khuku’s failure to come out of the cocoons. This paper draws theories on female subjectivity from Julia Kristeva and V. Geeta’s idea of feminism which explains the Indian counterpart of Kristeva’s idea. Sen focuses on the bindings of Shanaka and Khuku which makes them subordinate to the patriarchal society and Paromita’s emancipation from a subordinate to individual self. This paper aims to showcase the patriarchal repression on women where Shanaka was forced to stay as a widow till her death due to societal norms. The paper further positions Paromita as a symbol of patriarchal resistance, highlighting how her remarriage signifies a deliberate departure from the trauma of her disabled son’s death and an assertion of new beginning. The significance of the work lies in the transition of woman from darkness to light, her emancipation and attainment of individuality.
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