Social Change in Anita Desai’s Novel, “Cry, the Peacock”

Woman feels lonely in the face of vast external world. Her loneliness is intensified when she feels the sense of belonging nowhere. The cruelty of time can also be a cause of frustration. Frustration has been highlighted in modern literature on account of certain factors like urbanization, the dehumanization etc. that changed woman’s attitude. Indo-Anglian writers emphasis the frustration of major characters and the grief resulting from their frustration. The woman in their novels was frustrated before universe. The grave problem is that the conditions of practical life arouse in woman a sense of frustration. Hence frustration is a predicament element in Indo-Anglian. The term such as frustration, isolation, alienation and loneliness is synonymous sly used in this paper. Yet, they are different from each other as they depict woman’s different mental reactions and physical conditions. Psychologists refer to an extraordinary variety of psycho-social disorders, including frustration, loss of self-status, despair rootlessness, loss of beliefs or values. In short, frustration is a feeling of being alienated from others.