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- Title
Patriarchal Elements in Girish Karnad's Play The Fire and The Rain.
- Authors
Sankaranarayanan, Smitha
- Abstract
This work is constructed on the frame of the famous Indo -Anglian writer Girish Karnad's translated Kannada play The Fire and the Rain which heavily borrows from the myth of Yavakri from VanaParva of the Mahabharatha. This paper attempts to reveal the male hegemony that surface in Girish Karnad's play. This story revolves around a seven year long sacrifice which is to be conducted by Paravasu who is the Chief Priest of the village. The paper highlights the pathetic condition undergone by the women characters in the play, Vishakha and Nittilai. Their oppression at the hands of the men forms the crux of this study. We can also visualise how the patriarchal order undergoes subversion by these tormented women.
- Subjects
HEGEMONY; SACRIFICE in literature; OPPRESSION in literature; PATRIARCHY in literature; VIOLENCE against women in literature
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 4, p209
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Literary Criticism