Feminism in Thamizhselvi's Ponnacharam Novel

Abstract

Feminism, which is the right half of the world, is being suppressed, ruled, and enslaved for various circumstances and reasons. Feminism is the awakening from this slavery, liberated, thinking about their lives and with the intention of progressing in life. The feminist tendency was being talked about very seriously in the 1990s. Having initially fought against the most horrendous oppression, it now exists at many levels of society. At the beginning of the novel, an eight-year-old girl named Ponnacharam is introduced by the author through a goat-grazing scene. Her birth is viewed as an unwanted birth. Ponnacharam was the eighth child born to the Saatthaiya and Kurunthayi couple. Being born as the eighth, the mother does not dare repent and give it up and puts the child at the feet of the Naganar temple priest. Starting from the fact that he gives the child the name 'Ponnacharam' and sends it away, the life in the sheep pen becomes the life of this child. Ponnacharam transforms herself into a person who loves that life very much. She is shown to have taken to shepherding goats at the age of seven and has been doing it with some kind of commitment. She, who drives herds while tending goats, does not sit in one place while she is in trouble. The fact that she liked the work of herding the sheep with her father, grazing the goat with her mother, boiling rice and water in the hamlet, keeping the sheep in the stable, and cleaning the dung of the sheep would reveal Ponnacharam's professional interest. Thus, the nature of the feminist characters in Tamilselvi's novels can be understood.