THE ILLUSION OF PERFECTION: A REFLECTION ON GIRISH KARNAD'S HAYAVADANA

Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana portrays illusion of perfection that challenges the aspiration for completeness, which questions the possibility of actualization of it. A central point That’s aspired by most of us in the world, however it brings the dissection of a critical complex interplay of identity with aspiration, the earning for actualisation of existential fulfillment, which particularly gives a notion that it can attain a balance of mind and body in complete state. Yet also brings out the tangled lives of the characters, Devadatta, Kapila, and the minor characters in ayodhna Karnatak pictures, the fragile foundation on which the ideas of perfection and imperfection or actualisation verses visualisation is presented. By presenting the myth and folklore together, the psychological tensions of the contemporary, is shown with the narrative of illusion of perfection results in desperate fragmentation rather than achievement.

                The transposed bodies of different persons and disembodied hate in the avadhanas of human, and half conjoined different versus and the dilemma caused serves as the metaphor for fragmented or fractured mixed identities results in the futility of worshipping the ideal form. Girish Karnad suggests not the solutions but it paints the visualisation versus actualization but perhaps the unachievable, obscenity of absolute wholeness.