PERCEPTION ON THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY WITH REFERENCE TO HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS AND FAMILY IN BHABANI BHATTACHARYA S MUSIC FOR MOHINI
Our cultural life and society are dependent upon a few forms of family organization. The group of a family is the most sensitive unit of the society where all the members are free to share their happiness, sadness, and anxieties of life. This is the family which supports the members to interact with the more extensive social system. For protection, socialization, and reproduction, a family is necessary. The relationship between the family members especially the bonding of marriage where both men and women play a very important role is generally studied and remains the focus position in many works of Indian literature. Bhabani Bhattacharya is one of the most accomplished contemporary Indian women writers in English. A novelist with a clear perception on the image of women in society is passionate to study human relationships and family. The aim of this article is to study the different relationships in a family and the complexities of village city relationship, and tradition and modern in the context of marriage in Bhabani Bhattacharya's second novel 'Music for Mohini. he shows the fundamental values of Indian womanhood in Mohini's character. The marital life of Jayadev and Mohini are the focal point of this study. The disturbed relationship and disappointments in their life forced introspection in the protagonist Mohini. The mother of Jayadev is a common orthodox woman married to the centuries old powers of her husband's house. She assiduously attempts to maintain vital the family traditions opposite all the differences. The Big House is a suggestion of feudal settings. Mohini's approach into the house waves the development of tension between traditional ethos and her reasonable modem aspirations.