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Harshness, Aggression and Sensuality in Vijay Tendulkar’s Works

Raj Kumar, M. Ph.D. Research Scholar
Dr. R. Mummatchi

Abstract

Vijay Tendulkar deals with harshness, aggression and sensuality in most of his plays. The endless decay and harshness in the social mores inexorably impinging upon the man-woman relationship, as well as sex and ethics seem to create a sense of fate out of which there is no escape for man and woman. They are trapped in their helpless condition, left to the battering of cruel and creational forces beyond their control. No rebellion, not even acquiescence is possible. They are subject to a sense of self-destruction and dissipation bordering on despair. No dramatist may find it a proper subject-matter for his plays, for he knows he will inevitably fail to present the tremendous stress involved in this human condition. He may find both logical discourse and literary symbolism inadequate to effectively present the shameless seeking after power, the raw-violence and the festering social lapses. Harshness is noticed everywhere in Tendulkar’s plays - in the aggression, in the cunning game in the form of a mock-trial in Silence! The Court is in Session, sexual lust of the protagonist in Sakharam Binder in the rude, brutal interactions of the members of the family in The Vultures. Therefore, “all these plays, in fact, are spectacles of harshness, overt or covert”. (N.S. Dharan, The Plays of Vijay Tendulkar, 107).

Key words: Vijay Tendulkar, aggression and sensuality, logical discourse, works of Vijay Tendulkar.

Tendulkar’s Charisma

Vijay Tendulkar deals with harshness, aggression and sensuality in most of his plays. The endless decay and harshness in the social mores inexorably impinging upon the man-woman relationship, sex and ethics seem to have created a sense of fatalism, out of which there is no escape for man and woman. They are trapped in their helpless condition, left to the battering of cruel and creational forces beyond their control. No rebellion, not even acquiescence is possible. They are subject to a sense of self-destruction and dissipation bordering on despair.

No dramatist may find it a proper subject-matter for his plays, for he or she knows they will inevitably fail to present the tremendous stress involved in this human condition. They may find both logical discourse and literary symbolism inadequate to effectively present the shameless seeking after power, the raw-violence and the festering social lapses. They will find them at once crude and anti-literary.

Evolution of the Characters

The crudeness and anti-literary character of this subject-matter impinging upon the willing susceptibility or readiness of the creative imagination of the plays such as The Vultures (1959), Silence! The Court is in Session (1967), and Sakharam Binder (1971) seems to have evolved their own forms: and hit upon an anti-literary, apparently illogical, absurd anti-theatre which is similar in many respects to the forms practiced in the West as the Theatre of the Absurd.

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M. Raj Kumar, M.A., M.Ed., M.A., PG.D.
Ph. D. Research Scholar, Karpagam University
Head Master
SPM High School
Kozhikkkalanatham
Namakkal District
Tamil Nadu
India – 637 302
princespms@gmail.com

Dr. Mummatchi M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D.,
Principal
Rathinam Arts and Science College
Eachanari
Coimbatore District
Tamilnadu
India – 641 021
drmummatchi15@gmail.com

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