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Eklavya as victim of a caste
in the purposeDharaba Gohil
Semester : 1:Roll no : 13
Enrollment no.: 2609108420170011Batch : 2016- 18
Smt. S. B. Gardi. Dept. of English
T. P. Kailasam was a prominent writer of Kannad literature.
He was born in 1884, in Tamil family.
Kailasam focused tradition on contemporary social problems.
He has written many plays like fulfillment, purpose, karna and kichak, the Burdon.
The purpose is taken from the Mahabharata.
Introduction of Auther
Main character of the play is Arjun and Eklavya.
Eklavya is the protagonist. His character was marginalized in the real Mahabharata by ved vyas.
Eklavya is belong from Nishaada community.
The purpose highlights Eklavya’s ambition to became the greatest in the world.
The play is divided in two acts. Guru Dronacharya was best teacher of
archery. Guru refuse to learn archery to
Eklavya because he was a Nishaada boy and that time people believes that only princes are able to learn archery. Nishaada is a lower caste and because of that he suffers a lot.
Overlooked character of Eklavya
Dronacharya give promise to Arjuna that he become best archer in the world.
Being a common man Eklavya suffers a lot. He faces all problems and comes out with flying color and emerges as the tragic hero of the play.
A Nishaada boy wanted to learn archery not for his personal ambition but he wanted to protect and save animals.
In the second act Eklavya is far better than Arjuna and he is a self learner.
He learned archery by making the icon of Drona so in gurudakshina Eklavya gave his right hand’s thumb.
Overlooked character of Eklavya
Because of his caste. He can not get right of getting education from Drona.
Poor and workers are suppressed and marginalized.
Because of Indian caste and creed system talented person is not equally seen.
Eklavya as a victim of caste
Eklavya has courage and commitment but he become the victim of caste descrimination.
We can take the example of karna also.
We can find many similarities between both of them.
Conclusion
That is it :