Bharati Mukherjee Character Analysis

Bharati Mukherjee spent most of hertime in the United States and Canada since 1961, teaching at universities and colleges, writing various research articles, eight novels, two nonfiction books, four short story collections and earning degrees. She lived in Canada from 1966 to 1980. Bharati Mukherjee described herself as a ‘Hindu Bengali Brahmin’ who was born in Calcutta on 27th July 1940. She maintained her attachment with her religion, beliefs and race living at United States and Canada. Various famous and remarkable novels has written by Bharati Mukherjee those have both the portrait of a contemporary American story of a woman and a traditional Indian Brahmin family who still remains tied to her native nation even after broken with tradition
The titular narrator in the novel, also known as Jyoti, Jase or Jane, passes through one condition and nation to another and so is her inner self born again various times towards a higher level, until she finally seems to have found a place to rest. Jasmine experiences many circumstances that bring violence with them, during the whole novel. She is not always the subject of these circumstances, but they are always related with her. It is physical as well as mental violence that affects Jasmine’s further way of life and forces her to be reborn as a different person. The rough images that Mukherjee draws of severe moments reveal the psychological torture that comes with the replaces of life and culture that Jasmine experiences. The present research paper is aimed at understanding the behavior, struggle and fight against traditions of woman Indian society by emphasizing the shifts in Culture and Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s remarkable novel, Jasmine. The novel is one of her most renowned and meaningful novels which shows to us a powerful woman who fights against to be led by others. The credit goes to Bharati Mukherjee for provide a new direction and voice to the female’s literature in English. Most of the times her female
She continues to move ahead braving every unusual that crosses her path to obtaining her identity and does not believe in compromising. Her grandmother wanted to kill her at her birth, yet she survived: When the midwife carried me out, my sisters tell me, I had a ruby-red choker of bruise around my throat and sapphire fingerprints on my collarbone…I survived the sniping. My grandmother may have named me Jyoti, Light, but in surviving I was already Jane, a fighter and adapter. (JAS 40).A different chapter in Jasmine’s life begins after her marriage with Prakash. She gets married to him opposite to the tradition and even her dreams. Prakash has revolutionary thoughts and modern ideas about life. He believes that men and women should have equal rights and duties. He is strongly against the attitude as considers in the society that woman is lower than a man. Suddenly Prakash is murdered in a bomb attack. The bomb was in fact situated for women who were considered to be modern by some far-reaching. She is left alone and all her dreams destroy in a very short period. She decides to live the life of widow with her mother but refuses. She remembers that he wanted her to go ahead in life. Jasmine prepares to live the dreams of her husband and don’t waste her life. She immigrates to America all alone to achieve his dreams. During her course of