Question

By focusing attention on the consciousness of an outcast girl,
the play sensitises the viewer/reader to the injustice of
distinctions based on the accidents of human birth. Discuss
how individual conflict is highlighted against the backdrop of
social reality.

Answer 1

Answer:

The instance when Prakriti is moved by the monk’s humane values is when she is left thinking of the act of kindness in the backdrop of the social insult and insulation that she has lived with all her life. That moment had a strong influential effect on the desires of Prakriti. So much so that she was insulated of the wrath she might have to face in from the society. So strong was her desire of the monk that she was ready to take on the entire world including putting her mother’s life in dange