Beckett refrained from elaborating on the characters beyond what he had written in the play. He once recalled them when Sir Ralph Richardson “wanted the low-down on Pozzo, his home address and curriculum vitae, and seemed to make the forthcoming of this and similar information the condition of his condescending to illustrate the part of Vladimir … I …
“The Final Solution” is a story by Manik Bandopadhyay, who is an Indian Bengali, writing about the destruction of values and the politics of power and sexuality in the spiralling refugee problem in Calcutta, which was a direct aftermath of the 1947 Partition. Many of the Hindu families who left their homes in East Pakistan …
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Poem Summary Lines 1 – 4 The theme of distance is introduced in the opening line. When the speaker informs the reader,“Tonight I can write the saddest lines,” he suggests that he could not previously. We later learn that his overwhelming sorrow over a lost lover has prevented him from writing about their relationship and …
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Girish Karnad’s play, Hayavadana is a complex text and contains a lot of ambiguity and is therefore amenable to several interpretations. One of the striking things about the play is its feminist implications. The feminist implications and the question of desire and its fulfilment has been outlined in the play from the very beginning and it …
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Ans:- The female characters in Ibsen’s Ghosts depart from existing gender norms to a considerable extent. The most important character in this regard would be the protagonist, Helen Alving. At an early stage in her marriage, Helen makes the decision to leave her unfaithful husband, Captain Alving. This doesn’t sound particularly radical in this day and age, but …
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Girish Karnad, one of the major dramatists of the Kannada theatre, seized with the theme of incompleteness, imperfection in his successful play, “Hayavadana”. Moutushi Chakravartee in “Myth and Symbol as Metaphor: A Re-consideration of Red Oleanders and Hayavadana” calls such an attempt “man’s eternal quest for completeness”. Manchi Sarat Babu Baby in “Dionysian Ego in …
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An Indian author, Lalithambika Antharajanam whose literary works are in Malayalam language is a social reformer, voices the role of women in the society and as an individual. In her short story, the author voices out the effects of partition of India on women and their story of survival and recovery. The author revisits and …
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Two or three years after the Partition, it occurred to the governments of Hindustan and Pakistan that, just as they had exchanged civilian prisoners, they should exchange the lunatics confined in the asylums as well. In other words, Muslim lunatics interred in the asylums of Hindustan should be sent to Pakistan and the Hindu and …
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