The_Thousand_Faces_Of_Night.pptx

This Presentation is a part of Video created on National Teacher's Day.

1. Welcome “ The teachers we need for the education we want: The global imperative to reverse the teacher shortage” (“World Teachers' Day”)

2. Academic Details Name: Rinkal Dangar Roll No: 18 College: Department of English, MKBU Subject: Teacher’s Day,2023 Topic: ‘The Thousand faces of Night’ E-Mail : [email protected]

3. Introduction The Thousand faces of Night novel is written by Githa Hariharan(Published in 1992). Debut novel for which the writer won Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book in 1993. It follows “Story within a Story” narrative technique.

4. Devi Sita and Mayamma Mahesh Father -in-law of Sita and Baba Characters of the Novel Main Characters Minor Characters

5. Mythical Elements Gandhari Damayanti

6. According to the Writer….. “When I was writing my first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night , I was genuinely puzzled by the apparent thinness of my main characters’ lives. Then I realized that if I was to do their individual voices justice, I would have to fill in the background with a thousand voices — of all the real and mythical heroines whose life stories tell these three women how to live, in both normative and subversive ways” (Hariharan). “ In The Thousand Faces of Night , stories help young Devi learn what is expected of her as a woman and also how she can twist and turn these expectations to survive.” (Hariharan)

7. Thousand Faces of the Night The Thousand Faces of Night can be considered as a reflection that indicates the thousand ways women are demoralized and exploited for serving man's ego. The night can be taken as a symbol of darkness supposed to be beautiful but it is projected in a negative shade in the novel. Women are exploited/subjugated for trivial issues since ages. In the novel, Hariharan (through women of different generations) displays how a woman is reduced in her domestic life. Sita is shown as confined to her domestic life. Mayamma and Devi‟s personality are negated. In fact, they are perceived as objects of reproduction. Uma‟s suffering also advocates the means as to how women can be dominated targeting their modesty (Chandramani).

8. Conclusion The connection of problems faced by present women and women in Indian mythology. Subjugation of Indian women in a Male dominated society. “Yes, I am a wife and a daughter -in-law.”(Hariharan)

9. Works Cited “Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Gita Press : Gita Press : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive , 10 April 2021, https://archive.org/details/BkzO_brihadaranyaka-upanishad-gita-press. Accessed 3 September 2023. Chandramani. “Masked Women and Myths in “The Thousand Faces of Night.”” Litinfinite Journal , vol. 2, no. 2, 2020, pp. 1-10. Penprints Publication , https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689074316002/html/. Accessed 023 09 2023. Hariharan, Githa. The thousand faces of night . Women's Press, 1996. Hariharan, Githa. “THE UNKNOWN CORNER - A writer's bank of myths.” Telegraph India , 25 October 2009, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-unknown-corner-a-writer-s-bank-of-myths/cid/587494. Accessed 3 September 2023. “World Teachers' Day.” UNESCO , 5 October 2022, https://www.unesco.org/en/days/teachers. Accessed 4 September 2023.

10. Thank You Here is a link to YouTube Video of this Presentation: https://youtu.be/F3-yMh10X-c?feature=shared The blog which contains other details, here is the link: https://rinkal2303.blogspot.com/2023/09/happy-teachers-day-this-blog-is.html