Margalization of Women Under Patriarchy in the Thousand Faces of Night and Hangwoman

Literature is the expression of thoughts of society .The progressive ideas of a fictional genius spread through his/her works of literature. Githa Hariharan and K.R. Meera both are the well known writers who shown the clear cut picture of the society through their writings, their writings reflect on social issues, and the mirror of the society which we are watching today is well portrayed by these writers, their conflicts are pushing us to go in depth and think on the problem which is face by women under the male patriarchy. Present paper trying to analyze gender roles reflected by male and female characters in Githa hariharans The thousand faces of night and k.R. Meeras Hangwoman, For analyzing the novels researcher used some theories such as gender study, gender roles, feminist theory, theory of marginalization etc. these all theory conclude that male are always superior than female in society, and because of that women are always marginalized under male patriarchy.