Presentation of Female eroticism in Girish Karnad’s Bali : The Sacrifice

Abstract

The play foregrounds the problematic issue like a woman’s reclamation of her exquisite female identity through her extra-marital affair. The play debates over the notion and the act of violence. Like most other plays Karnad too introduces the theme of incompleteness of a man. A man is never complete as the ideal form of combination of the body and the mind, the beauty and the instinct and so on. So the Queen’s search for a complete man brings her ultimately to an “ugly man”, who brings her “fulfillment”.