LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 15:10 October 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
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The World Has Turned A Flea Market: Reading R.P. Singh’s
The Flea Market in
The Flea Market and Other Plays. Delhi: Authors Press, 2014

Dr. Bishun Kumar


Symbolic Representation of the World as a Flea Market

The play The Flea Market by a budding dramatist, humanist and a student of cultural studies symbolically represents that this world is just like “a flea market” where everyone exposes his/her paraphernalia to attract and entice the customers so that s/he could trap them for sucking their blood to quench his/her desires, leaving them to be succumbed to death whether it is man (male) enticing the women (females) or vice versa.

Perpetuation of the Suffering of the Other Sex

In such a market the trade of contemporary man seems only to perpetuate the suffering of the other sex- the woman and vice versa in the age of feminism by the irrational feminists. The play shows us certain traces of colonialism, though, the faces change, yet the ideology of alluring, titillating and othering remains the same. The Flea Market throws fresh insight into the colonial history of the Third World countries that the waft and weft of the occident was just to perpetuate the pain of the orient. The same is observed in the capitalist ideology where the upper/aristocrat class has left no ground to stereotype the role working class as laborers for ages and ages. This is how the power politics has started doing all the meanest roles to demean and degrade the human essence/sentiments.

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Dr. Bishun Kumar
Assistant Professor in the Department of English
Babu Banarasi Das University
Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh
India
gbishunkumar@gmail.com
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