Rereading the night of scorpion to identify the male interpretation of a female character in a male dominated society

Abstract

Nissim Ezekiel is a Jewish Indian poet. His poem the night of scorpion, describes the events that happens after a mother got hurt by a scorpion bite. The poem is popular for celebrating a mother’s caring emotion even when she is pain. The research paper identifies why Nissim Ezekiel’s poem, the night of scorpion is set an example for misinterpreting the gender roles in the patriarchal society. This study recognizes the tone of male discourse in presenting a female character in a literary work. The paper explains the cultural and religious impact on analyzing and interpreting the Jewish Indian writer Nissim Ezekiel’s poem, the night of scorpion. The paper addresses the male patriarchal societies’ habit of describing motherhood for its so called tolerance and suffering. The research paper identifies and proves the effortlessness of stating gender inequality as a part of culture and religion. The effect of culturally taught male dominant society’s ease approach to gender inequality is addressed in this paper as well.