Essay Archive - Women in South Asia
Women in South Asia
As I read over each short story of Rabindranath Thakur, I found out Indian women's struggle in Indian society. It was very interesting to me because the same type of struggle appears in my home country, South Korea. Indian and Korean women have similar suffering in their own society. It seems like, in most traditional society, women generally were at a disadvantage.
In the short story, "The Punishment", the two selfish ignorant brothers' behavior against their wives was unspeakable. It made me really upset. This stor....
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