Existential Humanistic Paradigm in Girish Karnad’s ‘’Hayavadana’’
Keywords:
existentialism, paradoxical identity, paradigms, alienation, futility
Abstract
This paper attempts to interrogate Girish Karnad s Hayavadana from the perspective of existentialism relating the protagonist to main concerns of existential paradigm such as freedom choice responsibility finitude and death Individual s variety of responses to fear and anxieties forge a paradoxical identity which tries to avert the inevitability through human efforts and subverts the symbolic identity to seek meaning in interpersonal relationship and life Hayavadana engages with this dual reality of human being which Becker refers to existential paradox The way an individual conflates this paradox has been analysed from the existential human paradigms which involves inner experiences desires memories and the sense of alienation It further investigates the societal myth of an individual used by Karnad to locate a man in the larger human context It further argues that Karnad poses a problem of identity in a world of tangled relationship
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2019-07-15
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