• Dr Meenakshi Choubey

The word sadism comes from the name of a historical figure, Marquis de Sade, ( 1740- 1814) a French Count, writer and philosopher. Sadism is a type of behaviour in which a person obtains pleasure from hurting other people and making them suffer physically, emotionally or mentally. The key components in sadism are the intention to harm, pleasure in causing another’s distress, a lack of remorse and failure to take the responsibility. The present paper is an attempt to study sadism as perceived in the male protagonists of Vijay Tendulkar’s three plays - Silence ! The Court is in Session, Kanyadaan and Sakharam Binder. Vijay Tendulkar’s male protagonists have the animalistic qualities like violence, brutality, ferocity and cruelty ingrained in them which result in their inflicting pain, torture, and violence on the second sex. In the play, Sakharam Binder, Sakharam, a Brahmin by caste, lives like an animal rejecting all the outdated social codes, rituals and marriage systems and follows his own ideology. This self-proclaimed womaniser, Sakharam searches the helpless and forsaken women, whom he brings home, gives them food, shelter and clothes and then brutally tortures them to satisfy his sexual desire and domestic needs. In Kanyadan Arun has the traits of a sadist. He takes pleasure in torturing Jyoti verbally, emotionally, psychologically as well as physically. The emotional, verbal and psychological violence against women in Vijay Tendulkar’s play ‘Silence! The Court is in Session’ may also be seen as a result of sadism of male characters of the play.

distress, brutality, violence, cruelty, pleasure

"Sadism in the Plays of Vijay Tendulkar", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.238-243, December 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2008029.pdf

"Sadism in the Plays of Vijay Tendulkar", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp238-243, December 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2008029.pdf