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Chitralekha Character Analysis

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Karnad’s Chitralekha does not hold back her feelings and desires. She becomes a vehicle to demand the sexual rights of a woman. Chitrlekha, the young lady expresses her desire to live which is a desire of modern woman but without Pooru’s youth Chitralekha prefers to die.
This fact is further illustrated through another relationship enunciated in the play: the Swarnlata episode. Swarnalata, the maid confidant is another character created by Karnad. She does not receive the love of her husband, because he believes that she is unchaste. Finally in order to free her husband from the dilemma, she falsely acquiesces to the lie. Swarnalatha’s episode reiterates the concept of chastity and virginity which holds a place of prominence in the Indian society. A woman whose virginity has been violated is looked down upon, but the men are never called to question. Just because Swarnalata’s husband doubted her chastity, she is made to suffer …show more content…

She is a symbol of any woman who is unprepared to face life on her own. Like any other girl she too enters this new life with many expectations, desires and dreams. Though, Rani is innocent of sexual needs, she certainly requires physical and psychological company. As she has been conditioned to be a dutiful wife, she obeys the dictates of her tyrant husband without a word, but her true feelings find an expression in her dreams wherein she imagines herself being locked up by a ‘demon’ in a castle. The demon is none other than Appanna, her husband, who locks her up in the house. If, Appanna is the demon then the whale (Naga) is the lover. She swings between dream and reality until Naga enters her life. Naga in the guise of Appanna comes to her rescue and presents a choice for Rani, a choice to live a fuller and happier life. It is her expression of desire and also the fulfillment of her wish for love, her desire to live life fully and with

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