Karnad’s Naga-Mandala is based on two oral tales from Karnataka as we know from what he says in his “Introduction” to Three Plays: … these tales are narrated by women- normally the older women in the family-while children are being fed in the evenings in the kitchen or being put to bed. The other adults present on these occasions are also women. It is a play taking its inspiration from the popular Myth and oral stories centring on the king cobra. Naga-Mandala discusses man-women relationship, position and identity of a woman about psychology and the impact of social and cultural modes on the feminine psyche. Therefore these tales, though directed at the children, often serve as a parallel system of communication among the women …show more content…
On the third narrative level, there is the tale tale told by one of the Flames who wants to be forgiven for arriving late. Her tale is about a woman who knew a beautiful story but refused to tell and share it with other people. One day, that story taking advantage of the fact that the woman was sleeping with her mouth open, escapes and is transformed into a young lady and the song that accompanies it turns into her beautiful sari. The story thus personified on the fourth narrative level relates the life of Rani, the main protagonist of Naga-Mandala. It also shows the male difficulty to trust and love women, it seems to be about the socialization process of both men and women, particularly in the Indian society, where marriages is more often than not the first experience of sex and love for most people. In a folk tale, there is a magician or a snake that assumes the form of the Prince, enters the palace and woes the beautiful Princess, locked up in the palace. When the Prince becomes aware of this, he gets the snake/ magician killed and the Princess then sets him a riddle. If he fails to answer, he has to die. This existential crisis is treated in the folk tale in different
According to the short story “As Birds Bring Forth the Sun” and “Interpreter Maladies”, both of these two story are tragedies, the first one, “As Birds Bring Forth the Sun” is a folk tale story, but “Interpreter of Maladies” is adapt from a true story about marriage and India’s historical culture, however, their concepts are totally different, “As Birds Bring Forth the Sun” had a very subjective stereotype, and the sense of this story contains misinterpretation, it just judge the fact with simple conclusion without any arguments and evidence, but “Interpreter of Maladies” is a story that is worth reflecting on, because by reading this story, we could find many clues which could promote the development of the plot.
Archetypes are reductive and harmful because they alter character traits and they do not display good morals.
This aspect of Indian culture was evident in this story through a few examples. First, the wives both stayed home and cleaned the house, Radha looked after her son, and they cooked the food. They were also treated inferior by their husbands. An example of this is when Dukiram comes home demanding and expecting food from his wife. He treated her like he was the boss or as if he was more important than her. Lastly, Chandara willingly accepts her husband's request to confess the crime. This indicates that women back then viewed theirselves as being inferior to men because of the way Indian culture taught them.
Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection and The Red Lotus of Chastity are two Indian stories that depict the different gender roles in the culture at that time. Sakuntala follows the story of a young girl who marries the King that has declared his love for her. When he leaves her with promises to return, she is cursed that her love will no longer remember her. In Red Lotus, the story centers on Devasmita and her fight to keep her marriage vows and her husband safe. These are two similar stories of love with drastically different women protagonist that bring to light the gender roles expected of men and women.
This compilation of stories is retold by the character Scheherazade, the childhood friend of the anguished sultan, Shahryar. Once scorned by love,
As Shahrazad tells stories to Shahrayar many readers are looking for a motivated female side of the story. The men in the story are seen as victims. Instead she tells stories of magic, mystery, romance, deception, and wrong of both sexes. Not only is she telling stories but teaching lessons within in each. The purpose of her tales is to make the king see the errors of his ways. I intend to analyze the cause of Shahrayar’s madness and how his position in society alters his macho ego, the purpose of Shahrazad’s tales, and what she hopes to accomplish.
Are men and women groomed to fit in certain gender molds? Alice Munro’s ” Boys and Girls”, is a short story about a young girl whose view of herself and role in society, is warped by her experiences with her family and on her father’s farm. As she grows up, the unnamed narrator is troubled by the notion of what it means to be a girl, which is brought about by both internal and external influences. The people around her begin viewing her differently, she begins viewing everyone differently, but more importantly she begins viewing herself differently.
It is an Indian fairy tale from Shahrasad. She got married to a king who after the weeding night always kills his wives because he is so scared of women infidelity. It is interesting how she is able to entertain the king each day with a story hoping that he will be curious to know the end of the story and in exchange she will be able to live one more day. The frame tale contains 250 tales such as Ali Baba, the Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma. the theme of female beauty is illustrated in the tale the Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma, when the princess fights against men who are willing to marry her but always wins. She then meets Prince Behram who later after being defeated but not killed by the princess disguise as an old mway of life just, it is similar to Greek belief of death in
What is the most carefree time in a person’s life after childhood? Chances are most people will answer early adulthood. When people imagine early adulthood they imagine a time filled with fun and parties, a time relatively free of worries and problems. At this stage in life people feel like they have nothing but time and often choose to spend this time in ways that are neither productive nor self-enhancing. People in their 20s are more often than not, under no pressure from society to plan for their future and because of this people often look back on the time they spent in their 20s and realize they could’ve done more to better themselves or realize that if they had taken certain steps they would be in a better
Higher education is a time where an individual decides what career they want to peruse by the classes they take, this time of their development also showcases there many interests as it relates to the profession that they want to examine. When it comes to assisting the person that has questions about career and jobs, there are many resources available that will be able to support them in that. The following is a scenario about an individual that has questions about his future in a higher education setting. Kobe is a sophomore in college and doesn’t know what to do when it comes to his future, he has taken many classes his freshmen year of University but not of them were of interest when it comes to a career that he wants to peruse. Kobe’s
This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections of Indian girls, to see how they emerge in ideological terms. Their journeys from self-alienation to self-adjustment, their childhood struggles against the hypocrisies and monstrosities of the grown-up world, eventually demolishing the unjust male constructed citadels of power that hinder their progress- are the highlighted issues. The point of comparison between the two novels focused on here is the journey of Rahel in The God of Small Things and Sai in The Inheritance from a lonely childhood to a tragic adulthood passing through a struggle with the complex forces of patriarchal society. Both the novels portray the imaginativeness, inventiveness, independence, rebelliousness, wide-eyed wonder and innocence associated with these young girls.
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.
My mandala is what makes me up and what means the most to me. What my mandala is filled with is a dog and cat, cell phone, a heart, a soccer ball, money, and lastly a book.
People’s experience influence how they view a group of people and their memories of certain events stay with them to manipulate their ideologies. During Ernest Hemingway’s childhood, his mother was not someone that he looked up to due to her strong character and abusive manner, his resentment towards women is showcased in his work. “Indian Camp” is a short story about a woman who is having a problematic birth, her name is not included and not much about her character is revealed, other than her there are no other female characters. This can be seen as degrading to women, the fact that she is the only woman and there is a lack of information about her conveys the idea that women as a whole are insignificant. In a way, it is contradicting towards itself because the woman is resilient as she goes through the very painful process of having a child, though this should be seen as miraculous, everything about the
It is the story of Devdas and Paro, childhood sweethearts who are torn apart when Devdas is sent away to Calcutta by his father, the local zamindar. When Devdas returns to his village, now turns as a handsome lad of nineteen. Paro asks him to marry her. But Devdas is unable to stand up to parental opposition to the match and rejects the proposition. Stunned, Paro agrees to marry an elderly widower. Devdas returns to Calcutta, but every waking hour of his is now filled with thoughts of Paro and his unfulfilled love for her. He runs to Paro days before her marriage and asks her to elope with him, but she refuses. Heartbroken, he seeks solace in alcohol and in the company of the courtesan Chandramukhi. Chandramukhi falls in love with Devdas, but even when he is with her he can only think of Paro. It is now his destiny to hurtle on relentlessly on the path of self-destruction. Sensing his fast-approaching death, Devdas returns to meet Paro to fulfill his vow. He dies at her doorstep on a dark, cold night. Therefore, on hearing of the death of Devdas, Paro runs towards the door, but her family members prevent her from stepping out of the door. The novel also beautifully shows how the social customs in Bengal in the early 1900s bring distress to