Broken Images (Girish Karnad)
Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · English
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Key Concepts
Central concept: Broken Images: fractured identity, bilingualism, and truth in a televised monologue
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