PERUMAL MURUGAN'S ONE PART WOMAN: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VIOLENCE VIA RELIGIOUS RITUALS

Abstract [English]

This article investigates the idea that religion is a vehicle for patriarchy. It succeeds in giving religion the right to use violence against those who refuse to believe. Such a restrictive environment is the beginning of our ongoing enslavement because ethics have the ability to justify acts of violence resulting from religious convictions. The study looks into how Ponna, the main female heroine, gets sucked into a violent cycle while being promised a life of parental joy that goes beyond even the most heinous acts of violence and transforms her into a "complete woman." In the end, the narrative tries to show how she ends herself in "a theatre of the absurd," where maintaining hope appears to be an idealistic reality in this absurdist bandwagon world.