Ashapurna Devi: Symbol of the female entity/ আশাপূর্ণা দেবী : নারী সত্ত্বার প্রতীক

Abstract

Ashapurna Devi is an embodiment of perfection of a woman in every detail. Women empowerment forms the kernel of her art of writing. Through she remains cooped up with in the four walls of her house and had no formal education, she was the rich seam of knowledge in terms of social education. With the deft touch of her creative thinking every female character has assumed great height. A hallo of identity surrounds her character and puts them on stilts. The character created by ashapurna Devi stand alone among others. Her prolific writing did not stand in the way of her domestic life. As a writer she danced to the beat of a different drummer. A flow of simplicity runs through her writing with elan. In her every story sordid reality in the row stares us in the face. In her writing the strain of Bengalee life finds eloquent expression which is dear to our heart. In the subject on the anvil ashapurna has glorified the female characters through her writing. Through her female characters in her novels she has brought out the best in women. It is an unvarnished truth that in her days she had created futuristic female characters Paving the way for women as to how to model themselves in the society (in future). That the mala and the female are created by the almighty and they are equal in his eyes and no one is no less than other resounds through her works. That the women should have a niche in the temple of honor forms the pith and marrow of her writing. Ashapurna has firsthand experience of the day to day precarious predicament of women. Their wretched condition has been portrayed without mincing matters. To quote her, what I have penned down has been closely watched from the precincts of a middleclass lifestyle. Not only hes she portrayed the life of middleclass women she has also exposed the umpteen number of problems be setting the modern women. In her works a innumerable problems of women comes to the fore but alongside she has guided them as to how to see light at the end of the tunnel. Many distinguished writers have attempted to poetry the life of women but ashapurna Devi was Poles apart. She was fully independent. Independence of women was the keystone of her writing.