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Critical Analysis Of The Palace Of Illusions

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Myth and Modernity in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s
The Palace of Illusions
Akhila Variyar1, Dr. Abhisarika Prajapati2
1. Research Scholar, School of Arts & Humanities, Reva University, Bengaluru
2. Assistant Professor, School of Arts & Humanities, Reva University, Bengaluru
3.
Abstract: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni holds a prominent place in Indian English Writing. Divakaruni 's novel The Palace of Illusions, the re-telling of Vyasa’s The Mahabharata has uniqueness of its own.The Palace of Illusions is about women discrimination, their struggles, identity, male domination, unique female perspectives and position of women during the period of The Mahabharata. The humiliation that went through is given as the challenges of life.Draupadi’s life …show more content…

A combination of traditional mythology and modernity of the present world is presented here through the retelling, which is a predictable message for those who are rooted in the accepted traditionalism and also for those who remain uprooted from the moral ethics of their own culture. Divakaruni has shown Draupadi as a contemporary woman who want to express her thoughts and ideas to the world. Divakaruni has tried to bring out the past into present in a different way by showing the story of love, betrayal, revenge, war, freedom and friendship. In the book review of The Palace of IllusionsJames Purdon says that “A little jejune at times, Divakaruni 's languid and elegant prose remains seductive as it reimagines the woman at the heart of the story and weaves myth into a modern …show more content…

They help to bring out the different characters in an enhancing way and express it in a different prospect. It gives the reader an irreplaceable experience to read the revisionist literary text as the vision and concept are altered.Divakaruni 's novel The Palace of Illusions, was a national best-seller for over a year in India and is a re-telling of the Indian epic The Mahabharata from Draupadi 's perspective.The Palace of Illusions is about the clear path sought by inspiring feminist voices which are powerless and mute. It is about the strong and self-centred voice of Draupadi from the Vyasa’s The Mahabharata. She includes the sequences and stories from The

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