Patriarchy is social system wherein males dominate not only in the family or society but in the whole world. In this system, males are considered to be superior to women. Besides, men have more control on economic, social and political resources. The writer here has made authentic and emotional representation of the annals of exploitations, physical mutilation and psychological suffering of woman. She has tried to highlight lot of struggles of women in order to survive in the invisible space. Moreover, Shobha Rao's present novel Girls Burn Brighter that came out in 2018, it can be placed in the category of realistic feminist fiction. The story is focused on the struggle of two friends Poornima and Savitha who survive under the dark clouds of poverty and deprivation. It follows a harrowing cross-continental journey of two poor heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them. The protagonist follows the mechanism of affirmation deviating from the tradition of non-conformity. Shobha Rao establishes that woman surviving in poverty essentially share the psyche of suppression. The present paper intends to present the tortured psyche of women in general and that of Poornima and Savitha in particular.
Research Scholar, Department of English
