Choice as Right: Revisiting Taslima Nasrin’s Shodh

Patriarchy has always expected women to fit in the frame of morality and ethics constructed by it. Men had a free life, women were caged. The hypocrisy of this system has been exposed by many writers in their own way but Taslima Nasrin takes this issue up to brutally tear it apart and subvert the myth. Her protagonist enlivens this drama and proves that it is after all a matter of choice that either subjugates or empowers women. Choice defines one’s behavior. Patriarchy either denied choice to a woman or it suggested a restricted set of choices to her. Jhumur astonishingly chooses to challenge the wisdom of patriarchy and, to her satisfaction, wins convincingly. This paper studies Shodh with the choice theory framework.