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The Quest of Completeness: Mohan Rakesh’s Aadhe Adhure
Mohan Rakesh’s Halfway House (Aadhe-adhure) is one of the most significant plays about urban middle class family and poignantly projects the transition of values in the changing urban scenario in India. It is an epoch making work on the changing human relations and in particular the changing dynamics in the man woman relationship. Its central character, Savitri, a working woman and mother of three, is portrayed initially with sympathy but ends as a figure more threatening than threatened, damned to an impossible situation with a hopeless husband. The play does not stand comfortably on any univocal guiding perception of meaning and direction. It is built on shifting ground, eclectically appropriating and deploying elements and concerns of realistic, naturalistic and absurd or, more specifically, existentialist, traditions, creating in the process dissension, fragmentation and slipperiness at the very core of its meaning.This paper highlights the changing roles of women in the modern urban setup and the changing dynamics of family as projects in the play. It ponders on the materialistic compulsions of the modern man; resulting in the disintegration of human relations, the loneliness of man, the sense of suffocation and disgust, boredom and the search for quick and easy escape routes. The desire to look for “completeness” may look like Everyman’s essential and irresolvable problem. Though we find all characters in this play are incomplete (in one or the other way) caught in their predicaments but the women are more incomplete than men.Key Words: Realistic, Naturalistic, Absurd, Existentialism
The Quest of Completeness: Mohan Rakesh’s Aadhe Adhure
Mohan Rakesh’s Halfway House (Aadhe-adhure) is one of the most significant plays about urban middle class family and poignantly projects the transition of values in the changing urban scenario in India. It is an epoch making work on the changing human relations and in particular the changing dynamics in the man woman relationship. Its central character, Savitri, a working woman and mother of three, is portrayed initially with sympathy but ends as a figure more threatening than threatened, damned to an impossible situation with a hopeless husband. The play does not stand comfortably on any univocal guiding perception of meaning and direction. It is built on shifting ground, eclectically appropriating and deploying elements and concerns of realistic, naturalistic and absurd or, more specifically, existentialist, traditions, creating in the process dissension, fragmentation and slipperiness at the very core of its meaning.This paper highlights the changing roles of women in the modern urban setup and the changing dynamics of family as projects in the play. It ponders on the materialistic compulsions of the modern man; resulting in the disintegration of human relations, the loneliness of man, the sense of suffocation and disgust, boredom and the search for quick and easy escape routes. The desire to look for “completeness” may look like Everyman’s essential and irresolvable problem. Though we find all characters in this play are incomplete (in one or the other way) caught in their predicaments but the women are more incomplete than men.Key Words: Realistic, Naturalistic, Absurd, Existentialism
The Quest of Completeness: Mohan Rakesh’s Aadhe Adhure
Saraswat, Surbhi (Autor:in)
29.08.2014
ASIAN JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; Vol 2, No 9 (2014): September ; 2321-8819 ; 2348-7186
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
720
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