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Volume 18:7 July 2018
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Hayavadana: A Perfect Example for Imperfect Lives

Dr. C. Raghavendra, Ph.D.


Courtesy: https://www.amazon.in/Hayavadana-Karnad-Girish/dp/0195603826

Abstract

Along with Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sirkar and Mohan Rakesh, Girish Karnad, a versatile genius, is considered as one of the pillars of Indian English Drama. Even though Karnad wrote very few plays, he has earned a prestigious place in Indian writing in English. In his third play Hayavadana, Karnad uses conventions of folk theatre. This play is about the search of identity in the complex human relationships. It reveals friendship of two persons and their love towards a woman. This play presents how all the characters become victims in the hands of fate. It is also a search for completeness. Karnad exemplifies incompleteness in three levels (human, animal and celestial) of creation in the world. Elephant headed Ganesha has human body, so even though he is divine he does not have single complete form. Devadatta, Kapila and Padmini don’t possess completeness even though there is transplantation. Even Hayavadana cannot become complete man as he desires but becomes a complete horse. The present paper depicts how wonderfully the playwright dramatizes the events and incidents in the lives of the characters to explore the search for completeness.

Keywords: Hayadana, Girish Karnad, Incompleteness, Search, Identity, Human relationship.

Introduction – Unique Blend of Techniques

Girish Karnad’s award winning drama, Hayavadana (1961) has Indian imagination with insightful meanings. This is a noteworthy step of achievement in the history of Indian drama as the playwright makes daring innovations and successful experiments. In Hayavadana one can find the blend of western techniques with Indian folk tradition. This play is in the form of Indian folk drama, which obtains quite a few features of ancient Sanskrit drama. In Hayavadana Karnad explores the dramatic potential of ancient folk traditions and myths. The influence of Thomas Mann’s The Transposed Heads clearly appears on the playwright of Hayavadana. ‘Katha saritasagara stories’ written in Sanskrit was borrowed for the work of Thomas Mann.

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Dr. C. Raghavendra, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor of English
GITAM University
Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh
India
crreddyenglish@gmail.com

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