Comparison : The Fire and the Rain and Hamlet

Part of Teacher’s dayDepartment of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar university

Prepared by

Bathvar virajee

Acknowledgment Compression between The fire and The rain

and HamletCharacters of Hamlet and The fire and the rain Themes of playsHamlet Aravasu Play within playFeminists perspectiveConclusion

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.

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

Characters of Hamlet and The fire and the rain

King Hamlet

Claudius Hamlet

Ophelia Gertrude Polonius Horatio The ghost

Ribhya Bhardawaja Aravasu NittilaiVishkhaParavasuYavakariBrahma Rakshasa

Themes of plays

Reveng

e play

Alienation

Yagna and

theater

Religion and art

love

Revenge play

Madness

Art culture

Religion and

theater

Love

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.

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

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”

• 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.

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).

• 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.

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.