Indiana

George Sand's Indiana is an extraordinary 1832 novel posited about the subject of love, freedom, and retaliation of a female. Up until this point, most of the novels used to have a male figure as the hero as they were considered to be the only educated and self-aware characters of the society. Indiana depicts the journey of a woman's emotions through a series of unhappy and complicated relationships that end with an ambivalent and enigmatic vision of mutual harmony. As we plow through the story, we might think of it as a discordant mix of the real world bound by erotic, moral, and political events woven into an unconventional love story. Indiana, the lead character, fights for her freedom from those who consider women as possessions. In her quest to do so, she found Ralph, a man with whom she has developed a relationship where she is treated as equal. This novel highlights a major problem about love and how women are sexualized and considered possessions. It makes us wonder if love can ever find a place in such a society?