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Broken Images (Girish Karnad)

CBSE · Class 12 · English

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Author and Playwright Profile

  • Girish Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, actor, and movie director.
  • He writes in both Kannada and English.
  • He received the Padma Shri in 1974, the Padma Bhushan in 1992, and the Jnanpith Award in 1998.
2

Plot and Central Conflict

  • The play begins in a television studio where Manjula is giving a timed speech about her novel.
  • Her speech is supposed to last exactly ten minutes.
  • The announcer introduces her as a well-known Kannada short-story writer who was a lecturer in English in Bangalore until a year ago.
3

Character Sketches

  • Manjula Nayak is confident, articulate, and successful, but also defensive and emotionally complex.
  • Officially she is Mrs Manjula Murty, but Manjula Nayak is her creative self.
  • She was a lecturer in English in Bangalore and wrote in Kannada before unexpectedly writing her first novel in English.
4

Major Themes

  • Identity and split self: Manjula is divided between official identity and creative identity, and the image dramatizes this split.
  • Language and power: the play debates whether writing in English is betrayal or bilingual expression.
  • Truth and performance: public speech hides private tensions, while the image exposes them.

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