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Gender Element - Feminism Traces of Feminism in The Guide'

Rosie is portrayed as a strong, independent woman who overcomes adversity. She leaves her oppressive husband Macro, who discourages her dance, to pursue her passion for Bharatanatyam. Raju seduces Rosie by appreciating her art and making her feel cared for. However, Raju and Macro both ultimately take advantage of and misrepresent Rosie for their own gain.

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Gender Element - Feminism Traces of Feminism in The Guide'

Rosie is portrayed as a strong, independent woman who overcomes adversity. She leaves her oppressive husband Macro, who discourages her dance, to pursue her passion for Bharatanatyam. Raju seduces Rosie by appreciating her art and making her feel cared for. However, Raju and Macro both ultimately take advantage of and misrepresent Rosie for their own gain.

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GENDER ELEMENT - FEMINISM

Traces of Feminism in ‘The Guide’

 Rosie is a multi-talented woman. She basically lived her life as devdasi and then she
educated herself to a highly decent girl.
 She married Macro, but due to his dominance and rejection she left him and turned
out to be a professional classical dancer.
 The character description of Rosie is uncertain, and is actually difficult to understand
her nature and behaviour.
 She easily allows Raju to love her. But suddenly she will think of her husband and
fells for him and even she would like to meet him once.
 First chapter of the novel reveals her character as free liberal girl who takes her
decision on her own. She even survived the devdasi culture and educated herself in
M.A Economics. She also broke the devdasi system and includes herself in
bharathnatyam.
 In chapter four, she is described as a seductress who seduces Raju and desserted
her husband. Her husband also uses abusive words that she will go with anybody for
seduction. But the truth is that she devotes her art and she lives only for her
barathnatyam. The reason for leaving her husband is that he has no interest in art
and he discourages her for being so devoted. He even remarks her movements in
the dance as monkey tricks.
 On the other hand, Raju prized her like anything. He decorated his words to impress
her and he appreciated her. He tells her that the way of her dance her movement
made him fall for her. He dreamt about her all the night. At that moment these words
impressed Rosie and she started to live with Raju. The longing of real love and care
made her to go behind him.
 In the middle chapters, we can easily identify that Rosie is kind by heart. She is not
like what she was described in the beginning of the novel. The real evil is Raju who
covers her good character under his bad portrayal. The truth is Raju seduces Rosie.
Raju is the one who voluntarily goes to Rosie always. Whenever Rosie becomes sad
about her husband, he used that opportunity to seduce Rosie and go so close to her.
We can also find that Raju poisoned Rosie’s character in the society that “I sighed
deeply, overcome with the sadness of her life. I placed my hand on her shoulder and
gently stroked it”.
 The uncertain character of Rosie is only because of Raju and Macro. They only used
her for their comfort. Even Macro didn’t treat her as human being. They treated her
as fancy thing. Raju also misused her art and earn lot of money and names. In the
last chapter, Rosie is presented as she emerged a great classical dancer and helps
others to get through their lives. Raju and Macro misused her by playing in her love
life. Raju even outlined Rosie as Gold mine to Gaffur. She used her art as business
equipment. At last, it is quoted Rosie as garland in monkey hand.

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