From Protagonist to Woman Wronged A Comparative Study of Shakuntala of Kalidasa and Utkarsh Patel

Abstract

newline This research thesis undertakes a comparative study of the novel entitled Shakuntala The newlineWoman Wronged by Utkarsh Patel a modernist writer and the legendary and iconic newlineShakuntala by Kalidasa from his Magnum Opus Abhijnashakuntalam where the concern of newlinethe study is to examine why Shakuntala is considered as the Woman Wronged by Utkarsh newlinePatel in his modernisticfeminist reworking of the classical character of Shakuntala from newlineMahabharata Utkasrh Patel a professor of comparative mythology at Bombay University newlineIndia has written Shakuntala The Woman Wronged keeping Shakuntala of Mahabharata newlinein the center Shakunatala of Mahabharata was a fierce and brave woman more or less Patel newlinealso imparts such characteristics in his Shakuntala The primary purpose of this thesis is to newlineprove the authors point of view as to why he thinks that Shakuntala is wronged and who are newlinethe people to be blamed for doing injustice to her The thesis presents a detailed and newlineexhaustive reading of all the sources available and maintains after detailed comparative newlineanalysis that Shakuntala the paragon of perfect beauty patience and perseverance has been newlinebetrayed by the circumstances rather than by any individual and The Shakuntala under newlineexamination emerges to be self sufficient brave and independent at the end of this modern newlinereworking of ancient classical play by Kalidasa newline