Unpublished article-Self Value

Author – Til Kumari Sharma – Parbat, Bhorle-3, Hile M.A., B.Ed., LLB.

Self Value in Feministic World

            The post-modern is the age of individualization. It is the time of self. It has its own value with individual freedom. The unity and tradition are forgotten. The unity and community have lost the woman identity. The self value is the existed beauty in the world. From the time of 20^th century, there are many feminists who want their own style, design and identity in their creation. Self value is searched among the members of group. So that women all are not feministic at all. So the self value must be searched. The woman is depending upon the husband's home. When the husband kicks out she seems homeless. She is kicked out even from her family members. So that the self-value should be in feministic world.

            The self-value is constructed within self, not connecting with the other members. The self writing has created self-identity in post-modern period. The style in writing is self-created. The traditional readers comment badly ignoring the self identity. So that post-modern period has given the self-judge that judges self-consciousness.

            The self-identity is needed. The crisis of home, nation and politics should be removed. So that the self identity is emergence factor in the world. There are different kinds of feminists. The feminist of self-value is different who is supported by post-modern time establishing the individual identity without imitating male systems and system of other feminists. This supports the self-feministic point. The self identity is the essential factor in this age. The identity of moral is collapsed by immature vulgarity. So that the self search of identity is needed with psychological writings.

            Female is searching the identity of individual and her own self-identity. The patriarchy criticized badly. Even the moral female does good, the patriarchal woman criticizes badly and truthlessly. So to know the truth of female there is difficulty. So female can have the self idea, self-choice and self-style. Female can take or stand on self identity. The post-modern era can be taken as self-existed time which crosses the boarder of centre.

            The post-modern time doesnot bring the boundary to the good moral woman. The moral society will come with intellectual society. The self-history has been hidden by patriarchy. The patriarchy dominates the moral female. The patriarchal children also are not good. They suppress and jokes the moral coding. From home to outside woman becomes the subject of ridicule that her identity is lost from her birth home.

            The self value of woman world can be seen rarely. To have self value women have to revolt strongly. So that patriarchy always makes puppet to decorate the woman. Patriarchy always takes woman as enjoyable character for male branch. If any woman refuses male order than female becomes the useless factor. So that the woman writers are presenting their own dissatisfaction against this monster-like patriarchy. Though these woman presentation in writing is joked by the patriarchal branch weather they are male or female members.

            To remove the disease of patriarchy, some woman writers are appeared. They are the writers who show woman lives and displacement in society. There are different writers with different perspectives. The 16^th, 17^th, to 20^th century woman writers are creating woman voices in their writings. They search the woman voice and woman identity. They seek the female existence and identity in the society. They are creating female writings with woman world. In this way woman writings are produced against the monopoly of patriarchal systems. The writers of 20^th century also talk about the woman voice with poetic language and its democratic view point. So that feminist writers are creating the female texts with their voice and authority. The self identification of writing becomes the major source in this bad patriarchy. The patriarchy jokes and laughs to woman creation. The patriarchy is not high due to narrow-minded view point. So that patriarchy is monster like. It is monopoly in the system and it is with conventional thought and thief like nature.

            Among many writers, Virginia Woolf and Julia Kristeva are most important writers of 20^th and 21th century. They are producing the literature of their own. They talk about different historical phases of many writers and the language. These writers are producing woman voice in their own creation.

            Virginia Woolf as the critic and writer has defined the displacement of woman writings from the time of history. She has presented the woman writings and their bitter criticism by patriarchy. Virginia Woolf has the thought of self-identity. She is revolting strongly against the patriarchal systems and rules. Her feminism has turned to self-existence. She is different feminist. She doesnot like traditional copy of male writings and other females. She wants to have self-style and self-design. Her writings demand woman freedom with new radical change. She has anger and bitterness in her writings when she is dissatisfied by the monopoly of patriarchy. She is best known feminist writer which is shown in A Room of One's Own. It seeks her own existence and       own- self.

            She talks about different writers who die like worms. She talks about Margaret, Dorothy and Osborne. She talks about Aphra Behn, George Eliot and Charlotte. She talks the prejudices of female writers who are near male oriented text. In this way she talks about the history of female writings and their displacements in patriarchy. She compares herself to other feminists and sees difference herself from other writers. Woolf has metaphysical purpose. She is like reporter and writer who mirrors the society and its history. She is 20^th century writer. She touches the time of post-modern too.

            She presents the view point that the woman writing has been created with discouragement and bitterness. There is not security to woman writer and writing. The woman writing is persuasive within herself but outside becomes the subject of ridicule. War of minds is presented without peace and prosperity. Woman must be silent in this patriarchy. The woman with justice should be silent. So the bitterness and anger are presented in woman writings. The woman writing is created with pity and sympathy rather than inspiration.

            In this way Virginia Woolf has gone to talk about the self and its identity through the help of writing. She talks about the individual identity within the fiction or essay that is the self-dependent thought. Her thought is different than traditional oriented feminist so she has bitterness and anger to the established society. Tradition woman writers are rule based though they have woman characters in their writings. But in the time of Virginia Woolf, she has focused on the poetic language, the democratic language in which the patriarchy has no concern. The patriarchal rules are male-based, the male language doesnot fit the female logic. So that she wants to have radical change with anger and logic. She says the intelligent woman is ridiculed and raped by the males because males donot think woman as higher and intelligent. So that her writings are the medical segments to have self-identification in the world. She has focused on self-intelligence of woman world. She is intelligent woman who wants the post-modern thought to have woman values and system depending upon the world of self. Virginia Woolf is strongest feminist who wants self-identity through her writings.

            On the other hand Julia Kristeva also talks about the poetical language. She is intellectual figure in French society. She is researcher, psychoanalyst and professor. She talks about language and its relation to other field. She talks about the poetic language. The title From One Identity to Another deals to the speaking subject. She focuses on the male language which loses the female identity. The poetic language is unsettling and unstable. The poetic language operates and communicates the meanings. She says poetic language is symbolic and meaningful though it has the foregrounding rules. It has focused on the style of writer with symbolic meaning. Kristeva is going to create the feministic language, the language of male turns to the language of female. So that she is feministic to change the language of male into the democratic language, the language of female as poetic. She talks about Saussure's system and Russian formalist when she talks about linguistic system and goes to focus on the poetic formation of language.

            She talks about poetic language is studied through meaning and signification that it has broken the social code and system. To break social system one has to transform another identity or formation. The poetic language breaks the grammatical rules and has free presentation. It has rhythm, music and coherence in writing but it has not connected with grammatical rules. The patriarchy as rule, grammar based language is within male hand. So Kristeva supports the poetic language as the feministic approach. Poetic language for the patriarchy is linked with evil. In poetic language, we see the writer's use of strong word and its symbolic meaning rather than grammatical system. Poetic language has witness and relief to express the bitterness of society. The poetic language of instability is supported by the weak delicacy and heritage of mother whereas the grammatical language is supported by father. In poetic language, beauty and meanings of tradition are lost but it has philosophy and knowledge.

            In this way these two feminist writers are going to replace the identity of self through the medium of language and structure. The self is the higher. They criticize the father heritage and highlight the mother heritage comparing the poetic language.

            These two feminist writers have created the self-style of woman figure. They are stronger to have their own style, existence and language. They want to change the patriarchal society with feministic approach. The feministic approach is with self-existence without the norms of male system in every field as in language, culture and politics.

            There are some other feminist writers who criticize the male hand and patriarchal rules. These critics also talk about domination of male to female in society. So that the feminists like them deal with the feministic authority. They are with equal sounds to sustain life equally.

            During the century, many women novelists have wanted to write about the lives, problems and special concerns of women in the modern world. So a group of novels has appeared which their centre and are written very much from women's point of view(159).

            Many writings are created to have woman characters. The woman lives and situations are presented in the feministic works as in novels, fictions and so on. The above lines have presented the women thoughts with their social reality. In many women writings, women characters are placed to show the woman condition in society. Women writers have composed the writings from women's point of view. Their writings are different than the patriarchal writings. The patriarchy highlights the male writings. But later, the women are creating the women characters in the centre position. The women's lives with realistic attitudes are characterized in the fictions, novels and essays. The woman authority is placed in the writings. The way of placing the woman is really sad that the writings present the dominated exploited woman character.

           The above lines are composed to show the woman writings and their concern to female problems and writings. The main theme of these writings is to place the woman problems and issues. Anyway the above saying presents the woman issue and woman situation on society.

            Another says "The assumption that men will work and women will be mothers has left an indelible stamp on the organization of employment: Women in low paying jobs which are easily abandoned, and men in higher paying, career-structured, ones supported by caring wives at home. (46 Money and Divorce:- The New Battle)

            In these above words the critics have defined the way of inequality between male and females.

            The words show that the men are born to earn the money or property. They are born to have employment. The employment is with high payment but woman is seen with low paying.

            The males are paid higher salary .The patriarchy thinks women are mothers and they are born to produce children. The males are seen as to make career maker. He must be employed and is caring for wife. This earning gap of male and female is the ditch of society. This kind of inequality is revolted by nature mother. This patriarchy doesnot give the full salary to female worker. This kind of inequality is the disease of institution and society. So that the ditch of society is inequality. The patriarchy makes nice to the rough maker and villain in the society. Nature has given the equality but patriarchy brings the disloyalty to moral and honest female. So that the above line and words present the disloyal behavior to female employing in this bad society.

            Anyway the writings of Virginia Woolf has pictured the writings of other writers. The difficulty of other female writers is the main source to show the problematic issue of woman writings

            But if I should not sleep this fortnight I should not come to that" – one can measure the opposition that was in the air to a woman writing when one finds that even a woman with a great turn for writing has brought herself to believe that to write a book was to be ridiculous, even to show oneself distracted  ( Adams820).

            The above lines or words are going to talk about the restless life of writer. The writing of the woman has become the ridiculous source in this patriarchy. The woman creation is going to be stolen and the laughing subject. Here in the above saying, Virginia Woolf has presented the concept of patriarchy to woman creation. In the patriarchy woman writing seems to come as ridiculous thing. The restless eye only has created the writing. The writing comes from the self-capacity. This patriarchy has seen the woman writing with opposite way even it makes the world as heaven. Woolf has presented the examples of many female writers e.g. Dorothy, Showwalter, Jane Austin and so on. She says that instead of inspirited source woman can be presented the disturbance. She presents in this chapter A Room of Owns Own, to write a book is ridiculous subject. Because of extreme criticism, the mind of woman writer is distracted. Virginia Woolf is the self-dependent writer who has presented the history of woman writers in her text.

            The textual presentation of this text is that woman writer has difficulty. The patriarchy dominates and ridicules the feminine text and inspires the villinary woman. The self-identity of woman texts is losing and missing. The woman is joked by the male society when she creates her own style. So that the patriarchy makes the lone figure to distract her mind.

            In this way, Virginia Woolf has placed the historical segments of woman writings and their displacement in this dark patriarchy. The woman writer with her own style becomes the lone figure and she becomes the ridiculous character of patriarchy. The mind of the woman writer is distracted a lot. In this way to exist as writer in the patriarchy is most difficult. It seems hard struggle. It is the battle against the patriarchal male and females. The simple woman cannot write. Only the higher mind goes against the patriarchy. The criticism is the sickle to cut the mind of patriarchal woman and male too. So that to be the woman writer is greater than woman leader to lead the nation.

            Anyway, to be writer is greatest birth but patriarchy dominates and jokes the woman creation. Instead to inspire, patriarchy jokes to woman writer and writing.

            Another writer Julia Kristeva in her writing From One Identity to Another presents

            Psychosis and fetishism represent the two abysses that threaten the unstable subject of poetic language, as twentieth century literature has only too clearly demonstrated. [Adams1170].

            Julia Kristeva has presented the segments they are psychosis and fetishism. These two segments are opposing the poetic language as they say poetic language is the unstable thing. The twentieth century literature has been with system. The system has pictured the rule-based language but poetic language is not rule based. It is democratic language. It is free language. So patriarchy opposes the poetic language as unstable language.

            Psychosis refers severe mental derangement involving loss of contact with reality. In this way 'fetishism' refers the object of obsessive concern. Here she talks about the unstable poetic language has derangement of word order and sentence structure which is democratic and free.

            In poetic language there is not traditional system. It is free. So that this poetic language is the language of free style which favours the self-style. In psychosis, symbolic legality is moved out. On the other hand fetishism produces the identification of signifier and creates civilized way of freedom.

            The patriarchy has gone to threaten the poetic language. But poetic language is free and thoughtful segment even the patriarchy thinks it is without arrangements. So that 20^th century tradition has on the systematic rules and is on rule-based system. But poetic language is democratic which identifies the self value in every text.

            The language of patriarchy is with monopoly system. So the poetic language is needed to break the traditional system. Another critic has defined the way of woman production in this way.

            Early feminist approaches to the media were concerned with the role of the dominant media images of women in circulating and maintaining established beliefs about the nature of the feminine and the masculine and the proper roles to be played by women and means wives and husbands, mothers and fathers. (346- Images of Women VS Real Women.)

            Here Stuart Hall brings the issues of female voices. He says that the feminist approaches in the beginning were related to the medias of women concerned with established believes. He talks about the feminine world. He has mixed the masculine role and feminine role played by both sexes. So the combination of mother figure and father figure is presented.

            The critic has defined the way of male and female in society to play the role of culture and politics. The culture is not completed without the percense of female images. Stuart Hall has presented the woman image in the study of culture. He focuses on the mother figure, wives in the source of culture. The culture should have the voices of feminine world. The female voice in media should be focused. Hall, as the critic has presented the cultural study with combination of male and female. He talks about culture, media and identities. The female identities can not be displace. So that to have gender equality, he presents the cultural identity.

            A male critic Starut Hall in his book "Representation – Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices" has brought the both voices of male female. Without both, the society is not complete. So he has given the segment of husband, wives, mother and father. So need of feministic voice is emergence point in social and cultural study.

            As the feminist critic, I find the self-value within the democratic society. To have our own, we must have self language and we have strong revolution toward the established society. The self value is come with the bitterness in established patriarchy. The patriarchy inspires the woman of villain. It inspires to keep alive to the villain women who make raping cases. It inspires and employs the woman of raping gang. The patriarchal feminist is bad and evil in the female community. But real feminist never does ill and evil work to destroy the woman existence. So the self-value is needed rather than the value of community. The feministic world has to give death penalty to those men women of female community who hide woman/man ill doings and settle their home in the community. In this way, the self value is needed. The individual identity is needed among the different feminists.

            They are different feminists having difference in self-identity. Virginia Woolf is different rather than other feminist writers. In this way Kristeva also defines poetic language to have feministic approach. There are male critics too who arise the feministic voice in their writings. But the capitalist feminists are hanging with patriarchy and they have ego to intelligent female. So these capitalist feminist are making crimes and rapes etc.

            In this way, the real feminist like me want to have the self-identity ignoring the other feminists who are not like me. The self value is the emergence factor. The self-identity is seeking self-placement in society. This is virgin, pure and moral. This way of feministic world is depending upon truth, logic, moral and justice. It is higher, thoughtful and virtuous. So that self-value is meaningful.

            The above critics have raised the question of female in every field as in advertisement of moral, business, moral writing, language and so on. The female value is placed by language and society.

            The male critic like Staurt Hall also brings or connects the world of feminine. So that the woman placement with self-identity is emergence factor. The feminine world is needed to highlight the individual value. The individual shining in the community seems to have the self-existence or individual identity. The identity within fair and pure existence is reliable and lively. So that the feministic world must create every virgin female without ego.

            It must be placed in the self-identity. The self-identity must have feministic approach to have the transformation in society.

            The self-value is existed in post-modern time with self existed rules ignoring the traditional system or the theme of centre. The           self-existence refers virginity, morality, identity, purity and intellectual thought. So the writer Julia Kristiva and Virginia Woolf have met the post modern world with self thought and individual code ignoring traditional system based society. Both seek the woman language and woman freedom.

            So the self is the most important factor in society of feministic world.

 

 

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