Compression between the fire and the rain and Hamlet
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This document provides a comparison of the plays "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare and "The Fire and the Rain" by Garish Karnad. It summarizes the key characters such as Hamlet, Aravasu and their relationships. Themes like revenge, love, religion and theater are explored in both plays. Techniques like play within a play are used similarly. A feminist perspective highlights the suffering of women characters like Ophelia, Gertrude, Nittilai and Vishkha. In conclusion, both plays employ a play within a play technique and can be analyzed through a feminist lens.
Compression between the fire and the rain and Hamlet
- 1. Comparison : The Fire and the Rain and Hamlet Part of Teacher’s day Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar university Prepared by Bathvar virajee
- 2. Acknowledgment Compression between The fire and The rain and Hamlet Characters of Hamlet and The fire and the rain Themes of plays Hamlet Aravasu Play within play Feminists perspective Conclusion
- 3. Comparison between The fire and The rain and Hamlet The “Hamlet” is a play written by William Shakespeare. The main title of the the play is “the tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark. It was published during 1599- 1602.
- 4. Comparison between The fire and The rain and Hamlet The “fire and the rain” play written by Garish Karnad. The main title of the play is “Agni mattu male” in kannad langaguge. It was published in 1998
- 5. Characters of Hamlet and The fire and the rain King Hamlet Claudius Hamlet Ophelia Gertrude Polonius Horatio The ghost Ribhya Bhardawaja Aravasu Nittilai Vishkha Paravasu Yavakari Brahma Rakshasa
- 6. Themes of plays Reven ge play Alienati on Yagna and theater Religion and art love Reveng e play Madness Art culture Religion and theater Love
- 7. Hamlet • The prince of Denmark • The title character, • Son of queen Gertrude and the late king Hamlet, • Hamlet is melancholy, bitter, and cynical, full of hatred for his uncles’s scheming and disgudt for his mother’s sexuality. • A reflective and thoughtful youngman who has studied at the university of wittenberg, hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts.
- 8. Aravasu • Aravasu is son of Bharadwaja • Protagonist of the play • Want to become actor • Fall in love with Nittilai • Outsider • Against of his brother paravasu • At the end of the play he lost everything
- 9. Play within play • The play presented within helmet is actually called “ The murder of Gonzong”. The plot of it closely resembly the actual murder of Hamlet’s father, and the reason that hamlet chooses to have it performed is it to trap claudies into revealing his guilt”
- 10. • In the fire and the rain same thing happened, Paravasu killed his father by mistake and he realize that happen then he said to aravasu he has to do father’s cremated and I have to went on fire sacrifice so, Paravasu went at fire sacrifice and aravasu and Vishkha was on his father’s body. Then Aravasu came to fire sacrifice so Paravasu said that “He is brahmin killer, he shouldn’t be allowed to entre sacrifice enclosure” to king.
- 11. Feminist perspective • If we read this play “fire and the rain” with feminist perspective, so we find that two women characters Vishkha and Natilai suffered a lot in their life. Nittilai murdered by her husband and brother because she fall in love with Aravasu. While Vishkha fall in love with Yavakari. And hit by her father in law (Raibhya).
- 12. • A play which began as a plot of revenge turned in to a story of betrayal, aiming to downplay the character of Gerttude and Ophelia. Ophelia is a sweet and innocent girl, who obey her father and her brother, Laertes , Depend on men to tell her how to behave, she gives in to Polonius's schemes to spy on hamlet. Even in her lapse into madness and death, she remain maidenly, singing songs about flower and finally drowning in the river amid the flower garlands she had gathered. Gerttude loves hamlet deeply, and married to claudies. And at the and of the she dies by poison.
- 13. Conclusion • At the end of this discussion we can say that both the playwrights uses technique of play within play. • If we read these plays with feminist perspective then we fine two characters who suffer a lot in their life.