This paper is published in Volume-7, Issue-3, 2021
Area
English
Author
Milind B. Patil, Vinod S. Waghmare
Org/Univ
Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Pub. Date
29 May, 2021
Paper ID
V7I3-1550
Publisher
Keywords
Women Discrimination, Gender Inequality, Violence

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Milind B. Patil, Vinod S. Waghmare. Women discrimination in Vijay Tendulkar's plays, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
Milind B. Patil, Vinod S. Waghmare (2021). Women discrimination in Vijay Tendulkar's plays. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 7(3) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
Milind B. Patil, Vinod S. Waghmare. "Women discrimination in Vijay Tendulkar's plays." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 7.3 (2021). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

Vijay Tendulkar is one of India’s most influential playwrights. He is the most prolific and controversial dramatist among the Post-Independence Indian play writer. Vijay Tendulkar is one of the significant dramatists of the Indian English genre. He is realistic in showing the problems of the common man, the conflict between human relationships,s, and discrimination against women in the patriarchal society. Vijay Tendulkar (1928-2008) is a leading contemporary Indian playwright who writes in Marathi about emerging issues in globalization. His prolific writing over a period of five decades includes thirty full-length plays, twenty-three one-act plays, eleven children’s dramas, four collections of short stories, two novels, and five volumes of literary essays and social criticism. His female characters are mainly from lower and middle-class families such as housewives, teachers, mistresses, daughters, slaves, and servants. The issues of gender discrimination, greed for money, sexual norms, violence, man-woman relationship, social issues, power, and morality have been featured prominently in his plays. He deals with all the problems and conspiracies, of contemporary society. The conspiracies are discussed in this paper under the heading – Woman Discrimination