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- Title
Some Traits of Human Psyche and the Attainment of Moksha/Mukti in Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala: Play with a Cobra and Flowers: A Dramatic Monologue.
- Authors
Malas, Abhinandan
- Abstract
Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala: Play with a Cobra and Flowers: A Dramatic Monologue provide the reader with immense opportunities to explore the human psyche from various perspectives. Since Indian history, society, myths and folktales play a huge role in forming the background of Karnad's plays; therefore, a researcher finds it more comfortable to explore the Indian psyche in Karnad's characters. In both these plays the concept of Indian psyche plays an important role in sketching out the human unconscious and without which Freud's theory of unconscious remains incomplete in this regard. While Naga-Mandala depicts the feminine desires Flowers displays the various traits and consequences of the male sexual instincts. But, in both the plays, the theme does not remain confined within the sexual instincts of the unconscious and develops into an incident that makes the individual realize the freedom of the spirit and the devotion to God. My research paper focuses on Karnad's presentation of the human unconscious in Girish Karnad's two plays Naga-Mandala and Flowers. This paper attempts to highlight the basic traits of human psyche that add to the general concept of human unconscious propounded by Sigmund Freud and make it easier for us to understand the working of this unconscious when placed against the backdrop of Indian myth and folktales. My paper also focuses on the concept of Moksha and Mukti that seem to become the ultimate goal of the individual and which get manifested in different ways to bring to the subject a sense of relief, satisfaction and emancipation in these two plays.
- Subjects
NAGA-Mandala: Play With a Cobra &; Flowers: A Dramatic Monologue (Play); KARNAD, Girish, 1938-2019; HUMAN behavior in literature; DRAMA criticism; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 4, p57
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Literary Criticism