A Comparative Study of Ahmad Ali's Twilight in Delhi and Edgar Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India: A Feminist Perspective
The study was designed to do a comparative study of Ahmad Ali's novel Twilight in Delhi and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India. The study is a comparative textual analysis in the light of Feminism. The focus was on finding similarities and differences between Ali and Forster. In both novels, women's exploitation is the main issue. Women are shown as voiceless and inhuman creatures.They are used as an object having no feeling or emotion. They are presented as the tool of sex for the men of society. They are portrayed as having no role in the social and political affairs of the family.The investigation has shown that both Ali and Forster have presented women as inferior to men but Ali is harsher as compared to Forster. Ali pictured only Muslim women while Forster portrayed Muslims, Hindus as well as British women. Which was the main focus of the study. The Comparative Feminist analysis was taken to give a new dimension to the study and carried out women's issues in society.
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Exploitation, Comparative, Patriarchy, Objectification
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(1) Sardar Ali
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Buner, Buner, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Asad Ali Khan
Graduate, Department of English, University of Buner, Buner, KP, Pakistan.
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APA : Ali, S., & Khan, A. A. (2023). A Comparative Study of Ahmad Ali's Twilight in Delhi and Edgar Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India: A Feminist Perspective. Global Language Review, VIII(I), 131-138. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).13
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CHICAGO : Ali, Sardar, and Asad Ali Khan. 2023. "A Comparative Study of Ahmad Ali's Twilight in Delhi and Edgar Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India: A Feminist Perspective." Global Language Review, VIII (I): 131-138 doi: 10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).13
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HARVARD : ALI, S. & KHAN, A. A. 2023. A Comparative Study of Ahmad Ali's Twilight in Delhi and Edgar Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India: A Feminist Perspective. Global Language Review, VIII, 131-138.
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MHRA : Ali, Sardar, and Asad Ali Khan. 2023. "A Comparative Study of Ahmad Ali's Twilight in Delhi and Edgar Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India: A Feminist Perspective." Global Language Review, VIII: 131-138
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MLA : Ali, Sardar, and Asad Ali Khan. "A Comparative Study of Ahmad Ali's Twilight in Delhi and Edgar Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India: A Feminist Perspective." Global Language Review, VIII.I (2023): 131-138 Print.
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OXFORD : Ali, Sardar and Khan, Asad Ali (2023), "A Comparative Study of Ahmad Ali's Twilight in Delhi and Edgar Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India: A Feminist Perspective", Global Language Review, VIII (I), 131-138
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TURABIAN : Ali, Sardar, and Asad Ali Khan. "A Comparative Study of Ahmad Ali's Twilight in Delhi and Edgar Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India: A Feminist Perspective." Global Language Review VIII, no. I (2023): 131-138. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).13