'Hindu Religion And Women\r'

'Hindu goddesses ar tradition everyy conceived to be strong figures,even indomitable ones. By comparing his female characters to these goddesses, Rushdie attributes them with a force of character. He perceives India as a matriarchy, where maternal power, energy, and wonder is the way of life to social cohesion. (Jennifer Takhar) Durga, the washer muliebrity who had nursed Saleems son in his sickness, is an main(prenominal) figure in Saleems life. As we earn from the description of her (pg:445), she is a powerful woman who is an antagonist image of the docile Indian woman. She may be representing the power that is repressed in these women.\r\nSaleem fears her as she symbolizes the take to that he has lost. Her name, even before I met her, had the intent of new things; she represented novelty, beginnings, the advent of new stories, events, complexities, and I was no longer interested in anything new. (pg:445) She is over again the one who foretold Saleem’s death. So, t hese contour of women as witches excite fear in Saleem. Like Durga, Parvati-the-witch, who is Shivas wife, is an some other master(prenominal) figure. She causes in creating their child which is necessary for the continuation. Mother was seen as a state.\r\nThere is parallelism between tenaciousness of nation through having children. Women have roles in productiveness; that is why they atomic number 18 important. Parvati acts as somebody restoring order. She c bes Saleem take back to Delhi by using her magic basket, making him invisible. Parvati reminded Saleem of things he had tried to put out of his mind. (pg:389) So, we croup verify that she influenced Saleem as other women, as being representator of a nation. When we come to other women in Saleems life, for example bloody shame Pereira. She is the one who gives birth to Saleem; she creates him in both biological sense and metaphorical sense.\r\nShe changes the babies and at the same cartridge holder fates. Out of gui lt, she attaches her whole destiny to Saleems life by becoming his c aretaker. She too influences the class positions of the babies. (Saleem and Shiva) The pickling process which is a process of preservation, linked to preservation and tenacity of traditions metaphorically, is meaningful. This fare process is under control of females and it is an important blood of berth and identity for the women. It is the preservation of the past. The womens way is practical, vocal; it is a way of transmitting tradition we substructure say.\r\nPickling process is only a symbol of this transmission. So, bloody shame P. , a akin(p) the other women in Saleems life has keen effect on Saleem. Reverend Mother, on the other hand, who is the bride behind perforated sheet turns out to be the head of the family. She is also very powerful. She becomes the head by and by the marriage. She preserves identity of the nation. She is wish well the other women; asserts her authority in cooking. Her foo d, for example, revives Ahmed Sinai after freeze. She uses food as field of honor where she wages her battles against her husband.\r\nWe see the monitoring of food, so frank and practical but burn down influence men. It is this informality of mothers, their affection influnces Saleem. To Saleem women, like India, is nothing without its past. no take to the woods from past acquaintance. What you were is forever who you are. (pg:368) And this connection to past is through these women. They are the ones who create nation and preserve it like the pickles. Amina, Saleems mother, changes and influences his life also. He sees her naked in the bath and witnesses her unfaithfullness on the phone.\r\nAll this causes him to have some kind of explosion in his head and that explosion causes him to assure voices in his head. It is the birth of Midnights Children.. He sees mother, motherland, the nation-India-,earth is not complete(a) as he identifies women with the nation. Identification is between the province and the body of the woman, especially mother. He sees the body of woman as the awkward and he should protect awkward as healthful as honor of mother. exclusively seeing her motheris not pure, the discovery of impurity in mother will bring crisis in his head- the numerousness of nation-.\r\nThe body is homogeneous as anything. Indivisible, a one-piece suit, a sacred temple, if you will. It is important to preserve this wholeness. (pg:237) Padma,whom Saleem exchanges opinions around how to tell a story is another significant figure. While he writes, his illiterate listener, Padma, sits beside him showing her worked up responses to his stories, questioning their credibility. When Padma shows interest on her face, Saleem speeds on sexual intercourse his story. She binds questioning what is next.. She encourages him to write which is the only gift Sallem has for continuity, preservation.\r\nPadma is important as a caretaker; providing warmth, food, human kindness to Saleem. She is India for him, committed to all country as a mother. She has earthly characteristic. She emerges as an earthly, stable, real, practical woman that ties her to the motherland. That is why, according to me, she is the most(prenominal) important character in this novel. But although she is a preserver for Saleem, she unwillingly poisonous substances him by feeding him with things she thinks hell on earth be ni love with her. It is a poison which is also a cure; both nourishing, reviving, perserving and also poisonous,destructive.\r\nShe is like India creating him. And ceratinly Padma is leaking into me. As history pours out of my fissured body, my lotus is quietly dripping in, with her d stimulate-to-earthery, and her paradoxical superstition, her contradictory love of the fabulous (pg:38) In short, women had important role in Saleems life. They are the mothers, the creators of men. If they were not on earth, no continuity would take place; at that place would be no world. Saleem is afraid of them also because although they create him as nation creates men; they also prepare the fall of men.\r\nThey both give significance and at the same judgment of conviction destroys. They can take away the identity as in Saleem. Saleem is the nation also as he creates; he writes. He tries to create meaning and form. And women help Saleem create himself, his identity like the nation does to all human beings. But it can also undo people. The women try to hold on to past and keep it safe as past is a country from which we have all migrated; that its loss is part of our humanity. (Imaginary Homelands; Essays and comment 1981-1991.\r\nLondon: Granta Books, 1991) And this statement teaches the migrants that reality is an artifact and it doesnt hold up until it is made and it can be made well or badly, and it can also be unmade, like women did to Saleem. When we come to the question of why White fort didnt give place for women might be because the childhood theme ook great enormousness in the book. For example, the grandfathers face for his childhood at homeThat is why it gives much spot for the child king. There is the continuous looking for the simple, untasted ide before recognizing sexuality, leaving the mother, to have potency.\r\nThere is again the fear to lose the pureness, wholeness of the childhood. And because of it there are the speeches in this novel that tells about the childhood mischief. It is like the fear of the child. And if we relate this to the women ,as we said women are the creators and they are connected to past, there is no escape from it and when it involves naughtiness and things like a child fears. So, as the Hodja did, there is both an escape from it and at the same duration looking for the past innocence. That is why there is no sexuality with women in the book. As they are feared, they can unmake men.\r\nThe dangerous influence of women is not addicted permission in the book; only parti cular and innocent ones are implicitly told. Consequently, women and sexuality are barred and not given much importance as in Midnights Children happened the contrast. According to me, it is because it is known how prestigious women are and can be dangerous in creating. And when you want something wholly new and create your own identity, as the characters in White Castle wanted, it is not a good idea to include women and sexuality. The women can bring fall of men while creating them.\r\n'