Rabindranath Tagore has been quite ahead of his times in vocalizing women as defiant and assertive beings. He was a rebel and a radical all his life. Tagore provided a voice to women through his stories, novels and plays. Tagore pioneered in advocating women’s liberty and has left behind the legacy of his leading heroines, who were bold, talented, empowered and challenged the embedded patriarchal notions of 19th century India. The present paper is an attempt to study the search of selfhood and identity through two female characters the Queen Sumitra and Mrinal. The play The King and the Queen and the short story The Wife’s Letter reveal how a cultural artifact can articulate the struggle and implication of conflict in the mind of a woman in the contradictions of a society and culture in transition. Tagore’s women were progressive and provided a fresh perspective to the minds already filled with traditional Indian values. Queen Sumitra and Mrinal both are the embodiment of Independent, courageous and unapologetic women.
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