![]() ![]() ![]() Upon cooking the root, the potion takes a horrible red color and she disposes of it in a nearby ant hill where a Naga(snake) drinks it. Being a victim of extreme isolation and subjugation, her dreams function to fulfill her emotional needs.Īs the story progresses, Rani comes across Kurudava who offers her a mystical root which if she feeds Appanna, will lead to him forgetting about his mistress and being completely devoted to her. Her repressed desire to be loved and to be free gets expression in her fantasy where an eagle wants to take her away. She dreams of an eagle coming taking her far away from Appanna’s world, which is another symbol of the repression of her desires. ![]() As Rani’s emotional and sexual needs are not being met, she suppresses her urges and this suppression is meant to display how women are not able to claim their needs. We find that Karnad’s play is full of symbolism that represents the unequal nature of our society and how the women feel. Karnad show how marriage is a patriarchal institution that has always been unfair to women. The same is not the case for men who are free to do as they please. This stands to show that women in society lose the agency to question but when they violate the prescribed patriarchal norms, they are questioned immediately. She is kept isolated from society and due to the conditioning, she has undergone in her patriarchal set-up, she does not have the courage to question Appanna and better her condition. This goes on every day as Appanna’s treatment of Rani is sub-human and he neglects her needs. On the first day of their marriage, Appanna locks her in the house and goes to visit his mistress. Rani goes to Appanna’s house with the hopes of living a quiet, domestic life that she has been conditioned to expect but the reality she faces is horrendous. It is to show how marriage is a patriarchal institution that has always been unfair to women. The name is a symbol employed by Karnad to highlight that this is the reality of most weddings that occur. Her husband, a rich man named Appanna (which translates to any man). ![]() The play is based on a rural setting and centred around the life of Rani, who is the everyday submissive rural Indian woman who is married off to a man by her parents, who arrange the marriage without taking into consideration her wishes. ![]()
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