ANITA DESAI'S NOVEL “CRY, THE PEACOCK” AND FEMININE SENSIBILITY

The most common theme the novels of Anita Desai is the complexity of human relationship, particularly the man-woman relationship. She writes mostly about the miserable plight of women suffering under their insensitive and inconsiderable husbands, fathers and brothers. So the man-woman relationship brings characters into alienation, withdrawal, loneliness, isolation and lack of communication that frequently occurs in her novels. Most of her novel's protagonists are alienated from the world, from society, from families, from parents and even from their ownselves because they are sensitive, high stung individuals. When these characters have to face alienation, they become rebels. Tension, worries, depression, disappointment, anxiety and fear become their lot and they lose their sense of sanity and mental poise, for example Maya in Cry.