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DEPICTION OF DIFFERENT DEFORMITIES IN VIJAY TENDULKAR’S PLAYS

    1 Author(s):  PARAMVIR SINGH

Vol -  4, Issue- 1 ,         Page(s) : 435 - 441  (2013 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ

Abstract

Literature always serves some purpose. Social concerns form the core of literature. Through satirical treatment of various eccentricities, follies and foibles embedded in human nature, a man of letters undertakes an uphill task to reform society and puts forth some plausible solution to manifold problems and complexities of life through artistic presentation of different deformities in the pages of literary works. Vijay Tendulkar, the famous Marathi playwright has used his mighty pen to create outstanding plays which hit out at multiple deformities found in human world. His plays inexorably ridicule patriarchal domination, gender discrimination, mental torment, hierarchical stratification, environmental degradation, dehumanizing of men leading to one’s spiritual imbalance. In his thought provoking play, Kamala, he presents all pervasive nature of humiliation and oppression. In one way or the other, most of the persons in the society have to taste oppression at one point or the other. The head of a family humiliates his better half, but he himself is humiliated at the hands of his employer. The family members harass their maid but Kamala, a woman purchased in an open auction triggers an illumination in Sarita, the housewife who starts thinking seriously of her own identity as a woman. Hypocritical attitude of most of the characters is also rejected by the playwright. In his play, Silence! The Court is in Session, Tendulkar very artistically lashes at class and gender deformity. The problems of live-in relationship and unwed motherhood provide pedestal for the conflict between an individual and society where innocence is mercilessly crushed by callousness and cruelty.

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