| Abstrakt: |
Vijay Tendulkar deals with harshness, aggression and sensuality in most of his plays. The endless decay and harshness in the social mores inexorably impinging upon the man-woman relationship, as well as sex and ethics seem to create a sense of fate out of which there is no escape for man and woman. They are trapped in their helpless condition, left to the battering of cruel and creational forces beyond their control. No rebellion, not even acquiescence is possible. They are subject to a sense of self-destruction and dissipation bordering on despair. No dramatist may find it a proper subject-matter for his plays, for he knows he will inevitably fail to present the tremendous stress involved in this human condition. He may find both logical discourse and literary symbolism inadequate to effectively present the shameless seeking after power, the raw violence and the festering social lapses. Harshness is noticed everywhere in Tendulkar's plays in the aggression, in the cunning game in the form of a mock-trial in Silence! The Court is in Session, sexual lust of the protagonist in Sakharam Binder in the rude, brutal interactions of the members of the family in The Vultures. Therefore, "all these plays, in fact, are spectacles of harshness, overt or covert". (N.S. Dharan, The Plays of Vijay Tendulkar, 107). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
