Familial Conflicts in the novels of Nayantara Shagal

<p>Every man and woman is a member of<br>family, which is the smallest unit of<br>society. It gives some degree of mutual<br>caring and sharing that brings knowledge,<br>values and material benefits from<br>generation to generation. As infants and<br>small children we learn from our families<br>the patterns of behavior that affects all our<br>later relationships both with other<br>individuals and with society as a whole.<br>Families continue to be most basic and<br>pervasive organization of society, bridging<br>the gap between the individuals and the<br>larger context of group activities such as<br>jobs, communities, recreational activities<br>and all the other social and economic<br>organizations within which we interact. In<br>twentieth century, Familial conflicts take<br>much of the women novelists’ attention as<br>people face the problems, mainly<br>emotional.</p>