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Broken Images (Girish Karnad) — Revision Notes

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · English

Broken Images (Girish Karnad) revision notes for Madhya Pradesh Board Class 12 English: 4 topics in quick points.

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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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Key Concepts

The play centres on a singleManjula is a Kannada writer whoManjula's novel becomes a worldwide bestsellerMaliniManjula compares herself with Malini

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Key topics in Broken Images (Girish Karnad) include Author and Playwright Profile, Plot and Central Conflict, Character Sketches, Major Themes. Study these first, then practise questions on each for the Madhya Pradesh Board Class 12 board exam.
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