Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana: Placing the Importance of Mythical Background

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Kunwar Sahab Singh

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As a reader of Karnad's plays, one needs to focus on their sources. Every literary expression has a source and in that the plot is gotten from someplace. The normal wellsprings of his plays incorporate fantasy, cultural story, myths, Puranas, recorded accounts, legends and so forth He appears to have propelled by Shakespeare who follows similar propensity of adjusting perceived plots. Present-day writers will in general utilize unique plots, or any notable recorded or political occasion, or adjust a famous Greek fantasy. There is not anything amiss with the act of adjusting any known or obscure content since it might give you new knowledge into the source text. A few pundits even say that each literary work depends on other writing as it conveys the echoes of its procreator. The activity of discovering how the first messages are adjusted and the new importance produced in the process merits endeavoring; it offers us another viewpoint regarding the matter, occasion, plot and so on.

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Kunwar Sahab Singh. “Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana: Placing the Importance of Mythical Background”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 5, no. 6, Feb. 2021, pp. 194-8, doi:10.53032/TCL.2021.5.6.26.
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