Tapashree Ghosh
Assistant Professor, Dhruba Chand Halder College. ORCID: 0000-0002-4107-8045.
Email id: tapashree.ghosh.deb@gmail.com
Volume VII, Number 2, 2017 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.25274/bcjms.v7n2.v7n2eng02
Abstract:
Mahesh Dattani’s Brief Candle deals with the life of cancer patients and is set in a hospital where cancer patients are about to stage a comic play to raise fund for their hospice. The play-within-the-play is a farce containing explicit sexual overtones, jokes and funny dialogues. In using the play-within-the-play technique Dattani is following a Shakespearean tradition. The research paper makes an in-depth thematic study of the play and analyses the philosophy of life that emerges from the play. Death is the predominant theme of Brief Candle. Faced with the fear of oblivion, Vikas, an AIDS patient who dies of cancer, realises the philosophy of life and rightful living and he spreads his understanding of life to everyone onstage and offstage. Every moment lived with enthusiasm, vitality and mirth is every moment denied death.
Keywords: Death, cancer, fear, life, laughter
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