Partition and Traumatize Subjugation of Women: A Critical Feminist Analysis of The Pakistani Bride

Abstract

The Pakistani Bride is the second novel of Bapsi Sidhwa, deals with traumatic experiences of an orphaned girl Zaitoon. She is prey of partition in 1947 as a result she has lost her own family. The novel describes horror and miserable circumstances of females not only in our state but in Sub continent’s masculine controlling society. The novel discusses numerous difficulties confronted by Zaitoon, Carol and Sakhi mother Hamida in a patriarchal society. It deals with the theme of a fake ideology of Marriage. Females remain troubled in male-controlled socioeconomic, radical system where female is measured as last. They are sidelined, demarcated with relation to male. The textual data has been analyzed through Simon de Beauvoir, a French feminist writer, claims in her book, The Second Sex that the complete of female theory has been manmade. She is of the view that suppression of girls is fundamental reason that they will no longer be called for equal rights like male. Furthermore, Gayle Robin's ‘The Traffic in Women’, girls is seen as a load or product, and placing her wedding is certain to consist of a trade of cash or belongings  and Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak, the instrumentality of a female is identified by dual ranges; ist is the idea of territoriality and the next is the concept of the mutual approach. The novel further explains that women have always been considered as a tool to fulfill human sensual needs after marriage rather than to a human being that have equal rights with man.