CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF HENRIK IBSEN’S RADICALIST AND PERVEEN SHAKIR’S MILD BUT PAINFUL FEMINISM

Abstract

This article essays to give a contrastive radical and mild feminist analysis of Henrik Ibsen and Perveen Shakir’s drama and poetry through ‘A Doll’s House’, and the poem ‘Fate, respectively. Henrik Ibsen utterly uprooted the concept of man dominated society by presenting Nora’s radical attitude in ‘A Doll’s House’ irrespective of being feminist or otherwise by promoting human feelings through one female character to challenge the existing norms set by the then society. Whereas Perveen Shakir, with one stroke of pen exposes the typical male psychology of today and the past. Her, very short poem ‘Fate’ depicts the conventional position of a woman in organized marriage, in which a husband might also inform her of their first assembly of his decision to love her or disown her. This is what we have found that despite being Western woman Nora is treated by her husband after having spent years but finally she takes a radical decision to free from the clutches of male chauvinism. But Perveen invites our attention to change norms that cause women exploitation in a mild but touch way.