Overlooked Ecocritical Interpretation: Nagamandala

This paper focuses on analysing on overlooked ecocritical interpretation in Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala. This study provides new insights into animal symbolism, myth and folk imagination to show the ecological relationship. The study argues the non-human characters, specifically the king cobra (Naga) and female struggle against male dominance in society. While existing scholarship primarily explores the play through the view of feminism, myth and post colonialism. This analysis highlights the overlook of natural world. In Nagamandala Appanna, the human husband, behaves cruelly and callously towards his wife Rani, while the cobra an animal / mythical being, behaves with Genuine love and affection. This paper explores the deep, often symbiotic, connection between human characters and the natural world, particularly the central figure of the cobra, and frequently intersects with ecofeminism by linking the oppression of women with the exploitation of nature. It makes a critical comment on the exploitative nature of the society, established traditional noms of the society are unfair towards women. This paper argus that in the traditional society women as been glorified therefore with that pseudo glorification women do not dare to go against the society. This paper aim to analysis the gender issues in Girish Karnad’s play Nagamandala the protagonist is Rani.