Unveiling Women’s Struggles: An Analysis of Shashi Deshpande’s The Binding Vine

Abstract

The motivation behind writing this research article is to highlight the issue of a woman’s
helplessness. Irrespective of a woman’s function as a wife, mother, daughter, or sister, the
community expects her to be submissive, timid, and gentle at all times. The Binding Vine by
Shashi Deshpande seeks to highlight the transformations that the human race is going through.
But it will take thousands of kilometers for these modifications to become evident. In addition,
this study tries to critically analyze the feminist assertions made by modern Indian women
novelists. The study examines how the novels’ shift in general literary perception, paying
particular attention to women’s developing awareness. It also analyses their battle against a
predominantly male, tradition-driven society.