Abstract
The theory of feminism highlights the plight of women and allows the readers to analyze their role
in the social set ups.This study focuses on the comparative analyses of women during the colonial
period as observed by Conrad and Forster. Their creative works; Heart of Darkness and A Passage
to Indiaare considered as core texts for comparative analysis.The texts highlight the socioeconomical discrimination meted out to women in the colonial period. The philosophy of equal
status with equal rights and powers for women has not given due importance. The colonized
woman is depicted as poverty-stricken who is in the clutches of exploitation, oppression and victim
of mysticism, claustrophobic, impressionism, hallucination, superiority complex and superstitions.
Both Conrad and Forster painted characters whose verbal strategies intriguing tactics to dominate
the colonized. The main focus of this research paper is on the comparison and contrast on different
levels of colonized and colonizer women. The core objective is that the colonizing strategies are
counter-productive, violating basic human rights of women in such a way as to create long term
negative impacts.The women are not given any proper treatment in the texts and none of the female
character is of central focus. They are painted as dependent, victim, gloomy and bereaved.The
main focus of Forster in the text about the women is that the colonizer women are arrogant and the
colonized women are ignorant.
Gulzar Ahmad. (2019) The colonized and colonizer Women: A Comparative Study of A Passage to India and Heart of Darkness, Pukhtunkhwa Journal, Volume-04, Issue-2.
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