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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 4(7), pp. 115-122, August, 2016 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2016.055
Review paper
The Dominance of power and mythological significance in Girish Karnad’s The Fire and the Rain-A Study
1G.Sankar and 2S.P. Suresh Kumar
1Assistant Professor, Department of English, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore-641 004 Tamilnadu, India. Email; sankarliterature@gmail.com 2Head & Associate Professor, Department of English, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore-641 004 Tamilnadu, India. Email; sps@eng.psgtech.ac.in
Accepted 23 July 2016
The play The
Fire and the Rain occurs in a small region of India long ago that has
experienced a lack of rain for ten years. The king proposed to
propitiate the Gods through fire sacrifice. So that God would be pleased
and send rain to the parched land. In this fire sacrifice Paravasu the
son of a learned Brahmin Raibhya, was appointed as the Chief Priest. And
the play deals with this appointment and the disappointments of certain
other characters. One disappointment definitely with reference to the
father going by ancient Indian tradition, a lot of emphasis was put on
age seniority i.e. age has always been respected. Older people have
always been considered wiser because of their wider experience. Going by
this tradition the learned Raibhya should have been appointed as the
chief Priest but for practical reasons longevity of life span, the King
chose to appoint Paravasu, the elder son as the Chief Priest. This
appointment had disappointed and agonized the senior. The high priest of
the temple, Paravasu is eager to perform a ceremony to bring rain. the
play ‘The Fire and The Rain opens with the representative of an actor`s
group expressing their desire to give a dramatic performance as a means
of entertainment for the Gods. After much discussion the group is given
permission to perform at the fire sacrifice. Cite This Article As: Sankar G, Suresh Kumar SP (2016). The Dominance of power and mythological significance in Girish Karnad’s The Fire and the Rain-A Study. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 4(7): 115-122
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