LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:2 February 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Mythological Aspects in Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala

Anju Bala, Ph.D. Research Scholar

What is Myth?

Myth refers to colourful stories that tell about the origin of humans and the cosmos. As stories, myths articulate how characters enact an ordered sequence of events. According to the common misconception of the term myths are merely primitive fictions, illusions or opinions based upon false reasoning. It is also believed that myths have developed out of folktales.

According to M. H. Abrams:

Folktales have been normally understood as traditional verbal materials and social ritual that have been handed down primarily by r, word of mouth. Folktales developed and continued to flourish best in communities where few people can read or write. It include, among other things, legends, superstitions, songs, tales, proverbs, riddles, spells, nursery rhymes; pseudo-scientific core about the weather, plants and animal (63).

In reality, mythology includes much more than grade school stories about the Greek and Roman deities or clever fables concocted for children’s enjoyment. As Mark Schorer in William Blake: The Politics of Vision, says “Myth is fundamental, the dramatic representation of our deepest instinctual life of a primary awareness of man in the universe, capable of many configurations, upon which all particular opinions and attitudes depend.” According to Alan W. Watts, “Myth is to be defined as a complex of stories (some no doubt fact and some fantasy) which for various reasons human beings regard as demonstrations of the inner meaning of the universe and of human life”.

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Anju Bala, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Maharshi Dayanand University
Rohtak
Haryana
India
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