WOMEN'S VOICES: A FEMINIST EXPLORATION OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S SELECTED SHORT FICTION

Abstract

This research explores the role of protagonists in selected short fiction of Rabindranath Tagore. It also attempts to explore the social roles enacted by de facto women in the literary sketch of Rabindranath Tagore, and a specific focus on identity and transient kinship. This research is qualitative in nature. In this framework, "kinship" is the custom of wedding or going back to the family of another to enhance affiliations to a bigger entity (common ethnic-social existence, area, or religion). His short stories are about ordinary individuals, and are centered on nature and his pursuit of implication. The suffering and forfeits that ladies have endured are dealt with. This research asserts that Tagore reveals the lopsided society despite being a man of color that is oppressive of women; he also creates resilient women who question and establish norms. He had written the short novel a few months before his death. In which he expressed his greatest current ideas regarding females, and formulated them, is "Laboratory," in which he also so expressed to the new woman that he had pictured coming to India. This is how Tagore promotes women to find themselves without being a spouse and a parent.