Female Characters In Hayavadana

Girish Karnad’s play, Hayavadana (1971), is worthy play because it is the pioneering work to translate into notable practice the debate over the usefulness of original performance genres in the development of a new, quintessentially ‘Indian’ theatre. Karnad adapts social myths and legends in his plays which has to be seen as an act of impulse rather intention. Karnad himself says in his “Introduction” to Three Plays that the myth made him enabled to set to himself a set of values that I had been unable to arrive at rationally. In Hayavadana, Karnad deals with the question of Body and Head with a different purpose. Interestingly, the main and the sub-plot deal with the philosophical and moral aspect of the problem raising more important issues relating to the human existence. He projects the female character in very differently. His female character possesses qualities like clever, attractive, energetic, and more dominant than male character in the play. Through female character, Girish Karnad presents image of modern woman who is caught between two ideas, one is her search for individual rights in male-dominated society and other is her quest for completeness.

Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana was influenced by Thomas Mann’s The Transposed Heads, which in turn is borrowed from one of the Sanskrit Kathasaritasagara stories. A Man 's search for his own self among a web of complex relationships, since Culture defines society So Karnad’s plays are a reflection of the culture in our