A Feminist Stylistic Analysis Of Novel Zindagi Gulzar Hai By Umaira Ahmed

Abstract

Feministic stylistics is characterized as the sub-branch of stylistics which plans to represent the route in which sexual orientation concerns are encoded in writings, and which endeavors to do as such by utilizing a portion of the systems and models relating in the stylistic toolbox. Nonetheless, the expression 'sex concerns' can envelop a majority of implications which has offered ascend to the multifaceted points of view from which the thought of sex has been drawn nearer. One of those points of view is offered by feminists‟ complex investigations which alongside different ways to deal with the investigation of language and gender from one viewpoint and woman's rights on the other, imagine sexual orientation in a fairly liquid and versatile way.The selected novelZindagi Gulzar Haiwas analyzed utilizing the model given by Sara Mills (1995), which means to examine text at the level of word, phrase/sentence, and discourse. The research recognized overwhelming and repeating features in the novel. Females‟ characters vary from the males in that there are more portrayals given to them which relate to their considerations, feelings, encounters, weakness towards males, and their physical qualities. Males are depicted by their physical qualities, identities, state of mind, which command females. Overall the research demonstrates that at all levels of analysis, the novel consistently foreground the female cognizance and experiences and understandings, in the meantime, the novel additionally amplify the infesting predominance of males over females. In the novel the females‟ most noteworthy dilemma dependably concerns her association with males as if females‟ worst is her own attraction/fascination and helplessness towards them. These repeating features uncover the unmistakable composition/writing style practice of the writer. At long last, the study uncovers that sexism and gender stereotyping are found in the novel, characteristic of the written work of a female writer conveying everything that needs to be conveyed as a female living in a male dominant society. It also shows that how females are portrayed as passive being, dependent, negative, distortive and submissing in Pakistani society and literature. The wrting style of female writers is also influenced socially by this negative image of women in patricachy system. It was believed that only male writers portray females as negative but it is observed that even females writer use such lexicons to show the image of women in todays society. It is not only men that are negative towards women but women also do the same to other womens. By apply feministic stylistic analysis it can be observed that females are not only the ones who are oppressed but also the ones who are oppressors. Female somehow portray themselves as weak and dependent on males for their emotional and financial support.