Where There's A Will Character Analysis

ABSTRACT:

My present paper is deals with the patriarchal egoism, how it is represented by protagonist and how it is cause for destroy his relationship with other member of his family in Mahesh Dattani’s play Where There’s a Will. The worst is when the man does not try to keep his ego behind in the relationship. Egoistic men are very reserved and it is difficult for them to adjust with anyone. If the ego of a person is hurt once, it stays for a long time and tends to spoil the relation. Men seldom accepted their mistakes and bend down. Mahesh Dattan’s realistic portrayal of human nature evokes both sympathy and empathy in the mind of reader. He reflects on the problem of relations between man and women, and ego clashes, the clash of ego between

The worst is when the man does not try to keep his ego behind in the relationship. Egoistic men are very reserved and it is difficult for them to adjust with anyone. If the ego of a person is hurt once, it stays for a long time and tends to spoil the relation. Men seldom accept their mistakes and bend down. Try to make him realize his mistake as it will only kill his ego. Hasamukh’s ego will ultimately spoil his relationship with his family members. The egoistic man is a man who develops his life only around his precious self and he never notices other people around him. He never notices other people and their interests and their needs and their troubles. And he always bothers about his own problems. He is always looking for problems in other people. He will never realize that he is the only reason for those failures and he will always blame other people in things that go wrong in his life. The egoistic man is a man, who will never be a good husband and a good father. He will never notice the loneliness and pain in the eyes of his wife and he will never care about problems of his son who needs him more than anything in this life. Where there is egoism there is no place for love. There is no way for love to live next to egoism. Egoism kills

The play is a drawing room comedy of a rich businessman, who tries to control his family even after his death through his ‘will’. “The play Where There’s a Will has many trademark qualities of Mahesh Dattani’s play. Like other plays, the play has Gujarati milieu and successfully runs on the stage. The play presents how women in their own homes are marginalized. Though the kitchen or home is described as the kingdom of women, they are no longer ruling over there. Instead, they are pushed on the margins of invisibility.”(Parmar-37) Where the father is almost like dictator who has supreme power to take decision. Hasmukh is staunch follower of patriarchal system. In the play, both men and women of the Mehta family suffer considerably due to the patriarchal authoritative head of the