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Throughout history, in the name of bread-winning, men have the privileges to accept the public arenas that grant them power, while women are still being restricted to interaction on the home front. As a legal contract, and social institution, marriage and family maintains a great deal of power in society, both historically and contemporarily. Githa Hariharan claims that it has made a great impact on the psyche of the silenced sect to such an extent that they themselves start to judge their personal fulfillment through its strength unmindful of the male dominance and restriction within the domestic sphere. This paper focuses on the changing perspectives of women psyche in the novel of Githa Hariharan with special reference to growing awareness and their persistent efforts to break away from the stultifying male ideology. The novel The Thousand Faces of Night of Githa Hariharan reveal the long distance that Indian women have traversed, starting from subjugation and servitude to persevering protests and finally arriving at assertion of their identity against the patriarchal society. In particular The Thousand Faces of Night present different stages of feminine progress.