Essay On Nagamandala By Girish Karnad

Traditional Masculinity is being displayed and defined by Ashoke, in honoring his family’s wishes in marrying Ashima. Ashoke portrays the role of a more traditional husband working and living in the Industrial Era. Ashoke is a good father, husband ,and a good moral provider. Throughout the movie he is shown teaching Ashima and Gogol. One example of this Ashoke and Ashima first arrive in New York; after a flight halfway around the world, he tells his new wife to lie down and he will make her tea. Her face carries a look of astonishment. She replies “I can’t.” He proclaims that this is America, “Things are different here in America.” This is not traditional Bengali ways. His new bride is not sure what to think. Another example of Ashoke teaching his new bride is Ashima wanting to show her new husband that she can take care of him. She wanders to the laundry mat to do laundry, shrinking Ashoke’s clothing in the process. Ashoke, seeing this, negatively sanctions (Macintyre, 2006) her. He explains how the Indian rupee is in comparison to our American dollar. Realizing

The strain put on Kaur’s ties with her family becomes apparent, not only through her father’s actions against her, but also through the words associated with her mother and father. Kaur describes the relationship between her mother and father as being one of another form of abuse: emotional. Kaur’s father silences her mother, much as women are silenced in the homes of dominating men. Kaur cannot tell if her mother is “terrified or in love with” her father (Kaur, 40). This suggests the lack of love and trust between all three people in the house, as Kaur’s father dominates both Kaur and her mother. This further affects Kaur’s ability to speak out for herself or to identify warning signs of abusive relationships, as she has learned to normalize abuse.

When one reads Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s “The Interview”, it is very clear how gender roles are predominate within the family that is portrayed. Using this family as an extension to represent all of India, Jhabvala gives us some insight into the daily lives led over there. The story is told through the eyes of an upper-class man who is completely dependent upon his family, specifically his brother and the women in the house. This essay will examine the male and female roles that are presented in this short story, how they parallel each other, and the deeper meanings hidden within the text.

Mahasweta Devi’s short story, “Giribala,” is about the life of Giribala, a girl of Talsana village located in India. Born into a caste in a time when it was still customary to pay a bride-price, Giri is sold to Aulchand by her father. From this point on, we see a series of unfortunate, tragic events that take place in Giri’s life as a result of the circumstances surrounding Giri’s life. There are many issues in Giri’s life in India that Devi highlights to readers. First, the economic instability of the village leads to an extremely poor quality of life for the lower, working classes. Next, the cruel role of women determined by men in society is to either satisfy the sexual desires of men or to reproduce offspring who can work or be sold off to marriages. There are also other social norms and beliefs which discriminate against women that will be discussed.

'Mrs. Sen’ is the sixth story of this collection in which Lahiri has portrayed proficiently and successfully the problems of immigrants such as displacement, restlessness, discrimination and marginalization in the migrated country, even after having found a place to settle in. This story exhibits the troubles faced by an Indian wife in a foreign culture. Mrs.Sen is one of two main characters in this story. She is a friendless woman who hopelessly misses her native place Calcutta, her home. Her husband took a job as a professor in a New England town. Life is very different for her there. She refuses to learn to drive because it’s not her interest, but the rejection also limits her experiences in her new country. She becomes a babysitter for

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel, The Palace of Illusions is the epitome of feminism. It retells the story of Mahabharata from the view point of Draupadi, the daughter of King Drupad. The delicate threads of her life have beautifully been interwoven to bring forth a grasping story. Chitra Banerjee has herself written “I would uncover the story that lay invisible between the lines of the men’s exploits. Better still I would have her one of her tell it herself, with all her joys and doubts, her struggles and her triumphs, her heartbreaks, her achievements, the unique female way in which she sees her world and her place in it.”(XV).

Indian literature written in English language has its base n the myth that has been passed on from generations. Like many Indian English writers writing in English Girish Karnad is of no exception. In his writings the mythological aspects echo throughout. His plays like ‘Hayavadana’, ‘The Fire and The Rplay hain’ and ‘Nagmandala’ are based on the myths but Karnad gives an approach to myth in a different way. His plays originate from the myths of Indian legends but in the course of the play hee insert some of the acts which make us rethink about depending on God, especially through the man-God encounter acts.

Born on May 19,1938, in Mathern, Maharastra, Girish Karnad has become one of India’s brightest shining stars, carning international praise as a playwright, poet, actor, director, critic and translator. As a young man studying at Karnataka University, Dharwar, where he earning international literay fame, but he thought that he would do so by writing in English. Scholarship and went on to receive a Master of Arts Degree in Philosophy,Politic and Economics . He would eventually achieve the international fame he had dreamed of, but not for his English Poetry. Instead,Karnad would earn his reputation through decades of consistent literary output on his native soil.

This paper is an attempt to study the birth of New Woman, in the light of feministic analysis, in the Immigrant Indian women characters in the short stories of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “Arranged Marriage”. It deplores that being trapped between tradition and modernity, Chitra B. Divakaruni’s immigrant heroines are fully conscious of being victims of gender discrimination prevalent in the conservative male-dominated society. C. Divakaruni gives her pragmatic resolutions related to the modern Indian Immigrant women’s beleaguered existence. Repudiating the femininity, the housewifery and the duties to their coercive husbands, her protagonists transform themselves into the beings of self-assertive, self-independent and self-actualised spirit

Our society has created an identity for women since ancient days. Women are considered as an weaker sex and inferior to men. Though she plays a important role in her life, she is not found as an individual human being with all emotions and sufferings. She is supposed to live a life of dedication, surrendering and devotion. In Indian fiction, the women are modelled with the above qualities. Those qualities of women created a large impact on the Indian psyche and the expectation of society, and consciously or unconsciously

Girish Karnad is one of the foremost playwrights of the contemporary Indian stage. He has given the Indian theatre a richness that could probably be equated only with his talents as an actor-director. His contribution goes beyond theatre: he has directed feature films, documentaries and television serials in Kannada, Hindi, and English and has played leading roles as an actor in Hindi and Kannada art films, commercial movies and television serials. He has represented Indian in foreign lands as an emissary of art and culture.

The strain that is put on Kaur’s ties with her family is apparent, not only through what her father did to her, but also through the words associated with her mother and father. Kaur describes the relationship between her mother and father as being one of another form of abuse, this one emotional. Kaur’s father often silences her mother, much as women are silenced in homes of dominating men. Kaur is “ quote about inability to see if mother loves father”. This suggests the lack of love and trust between all three people in the house, as Kaur is physically dominated by her father and her mother is emotionally dominated by him. This further affected Kaur’s ability to speak out for herself or to identify warning signs of abusive relationships, as she has learned that abuse is normal.

There is no hint of displeasure on her face as she diligently carries out her duty as an ‘ideal wife’. Also why should she have any objection for ‘as long as she lives, a woman’s God and master is her husband’. This scene emphasises the nature of a traditional marital relationship in Indian culture and the presumed duties of a woman as a wife. The text of the Ramayana is considered to be sacred and is followed religiously by people. If it happens to call a woman’s husband her master and God, its influence on the psyche of the people, especially the women, is self

Kamala Das (1934-2009) is one of the most significant feminine voices of Indian English poetry. Often her vocabulary, idioms, choice of words and some syntactical construction are part of what has been termed the Indianization of English. As a confessional poet Kamala Das’ poetry deals with the pathos of women, emerging from a possessive role to the point of discovering and asserting the individual liberty. Since confessional poetry is largely subjective and autobiographical, the poet gets the chance to pour her heart into the poetry. Because of its autobiographical nature the confessional poetry deals with the instant feelings of the writers which again associates the personal experiences of the readers also. Through her poetry, Kamala Das not only expresses the inner feelings but she also projects herself as a feminist poetic voice who is always asking for a dignified place of honor and identity.

Kapur has explored the agony of a woman under patriarchal pressure and state of social ostracism. In their search for individual identity, the women characters prove themselves as real women of flesh and blood who have their own emotions and sentiments and urge for new identity in the life. The novelist explores their yearning for intellectual space in the traditional society. Kapur’s novels reveal disintegration in woman’s life, her struggle for basic rights and quest for identity and survival. She portrays how women are suffering from economic and socio-cultural lacunas in the male governed society. They have been still deprived for their basic rights, their aspirations to their search of individuality and self-reliance.