The Binding Of Mother And Daughter Relationship In Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors

Abstract

The psychic imbalance and emotional bindings of Shashi Deshpande's mother and daughter characters in her novel The Dark Hold No Terrors are the focus of this paper. An important aspect in Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors is the lack of cordial relations between a mother and a daughter: In this novel, the mother-daughter relationship occupies the centre stage. Her novel is mainly concerned with the self-assertion and loneliness of a woman. Her chief concern is human relations, not the rationalization but felt, perceived and real, not the traditional but redefined human relations, especially the relationship between mother and daughter. In all these, the central figure, either mother or daughter, is a woman.