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Question
Why do you think the playwright has used the technique of the image in the play?
Solution
Girish Karnad is more interested in the subjection of binaries in an individual. The interplay of these antithetical selves is what the playwright Is interested in. There remains a gap between the outer and the inner selves of an individual and it is through this space that one questions, adjusts, negotiates, compromises, debates, justifies, and finally settles for something.
What the outer personality projects, the inner man might not conform to it and this is how there arises a split between them. This rift between these two images leads to an inner turmoil in an individual. The playwright has employed the technique of image in the play to bring out the subliminal fight between them. Besides, it can also be decoded as to how identical images can contain and operate on antithetical modes.
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