Problems Faced by Married Women in the Novel “Manamana En Tholikku”

Abstract

It is through the marriage relationship children are born, men and women attain the status of parents and their lives do not end just by giving birth to a child. A relationship formed in marriage is a bond that continues till their end. A woman can be a doer of good and as well as a destroyer too.  Not a single atom can move without her. Women is the beginning and end of a world. The world was born out of her and the world was born for her. She is the mother, girlfriend, wife, daughter, granddaughter, friend and so on. She is the goddess of education, wealth, and valor. The phrase "A woman to be protected in childhood by a father, in youth by a husband, and in old age by a son" is a great insult for her. Isn't she responsible for the happiness of her family, her parents, her children? Isn't a woman who puts aside all her likes and dislikes and devotes her entire life to her parents, husband and children a martyr by birth? The article deals with the question, what is women’s condition and how is she treated today?