Abstract

Andro-centric literature hardly focused on woman repression. Very few male writers could see woman sufferings in social phenomenon with woman eyes and thereby present their distresses in literary works. Saratchandra Chattaphadhyay and Henrik Ibsen are among the few celebrated writers who claimed overwhelming applause for presenting woman question in their works with a view to restructuring social construct about woman status in society. Nora and Komol are presented in their respective works as advocates of woman rights. Nora revolts against male-formulated social structure repressing women in the name of religion, conventions, and breaks the framework set up by men and dashes for liberated life. But Komol is more ruthless in her approach. She attacks age-old beliefs both social and religious and denounces everything that denigrates humanity. A lot of criticism arises in social and literary discourses because of their blatant attitude towards traditional social mindset. This article made a feminist reading of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Saratchandra’s Shesh Proshno, and evaluated Nora and Komol from feminist perspective. The study discovered a great commonness in both the characters—the struggle for emancipation.

Key words: Woman, struggle, emancipation, tradition, society.