• Dr. Sowmiya L M

The evil in an individual destroys his happiness and that of others with whom he comes into contact; but the evil in the society causes a lot of havoc in the life of each and every individual. For Karnad, drama serves to instruct, entertain, enlighten, and give happiness, peace and moral upliftment. It teaches one’s duty and relieves one from his sorrows. It is evident that his plays evince a profound concern for man, a sympathetic affirmation of the fleshly and worldly life and an incisively insightful contemporary social relevance. His plays serve as a vehicle for communicating man’s aspiration, jealousies, madness, quest for perfection, completeness and eternal conflict of passions. Karnad pays attention and tries to project the crisis of values in India. Man in the mundane world leads a kind of monotonous, mechanical life. Due to his materialistic aspirations, man tends to loose his moral values but an understanding of the realities of life ultimately anchors him to those values. He has succumbed to the humdrum of life. Girish Karnad successfully presents the full concentration of truth through his imagination.

Reality, moral, adultery, infidelity, forbidden pleasure

"TREATMENT OF REALITY IN HAYAVADANA AND NAGAMANDALA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no.185-188, October-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810809.pdf

"TREATMENT OF REALITY IN HAYAVADANA AND NAGAMANDALA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no. pp185-188, October-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810809.pdf