The Predilection For Liberation Of Women In Girish Karnad’s Play The Fire And The Rain

Abstract

Girish Karnad was an eccentric author, who portrayed the complex struggles in the lives of women and tried to uplift them from their atrocities. His magical hands has jotted down disparate ways to set free the woman through the admirable works that  makes the characters evergreen in  reader’s mind. The play astoundly imparts the aggressive acts towards the women by the male supreme powers which is evident from the characters of  Nittilai and Vishaka. Despite all the hindrances that trammels up their lives, both of them wish for laissez-aller. Vishaka and Nittilai are dominated by the overweening strength of the patriarchal society, but they struggled to get back a life which they think to be rightful and prosperous for them. Karnad exquisitely picturised the psyche of women by exploring the difficult conditions around the institution of marriage. Vishaka and Nittilai come from two different social classes but they seek to achieve the same wish that unshackles their enslavement and to hope for an eccentric happiness. These characters infringe their male superior powers to unchain the manacles of oppression.