female archetypes

By Navya The role of women witnessed a drastic change over the ages both in society and literature; although portraying strong and independent ‘women protagonists’ in literature is the current trend, you hardly find women lead in ancient literature. As the ancient world literature is dominated by men, literary works mostly reflected on male protagonists, obviously! And of course, even if there are any traces of women in novels, they are majorly depicted as ‘kitchen queens,’ ‘caretakers,’ and ‘innocent weaker genders.’ The primary credit for the limited role of women in ancient literature can be attested to patriarchy and age-old…