The protagonist the Queen is a powerful personality who has individual concept of life. The Queen becomes the most admirable character in the play because of her logical argument and her equalitarian approach. She is ‘imaginative’ and ‘sensitive’, firm in her faith and commitment, but she is a conscious woman of her place in the royal family and as a queen in the society. The dramatist has evolved her character from her childhood days to the present state of act. She is courageous, persuasive and demonstrates her ideas and actions. She is a blend of practical wisdom and commonsense. She keeps up these features of personality in all circumstances, without giving a second thought to it. By opposing everyone’s idea of offering sacrifice to gods,
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Both these women are able to satiate their desires by supernatural aid but the Queen in Bali is unembarrassed, bold and resolute. She has the cheek to leave the King lying next to her and slip away from the palace, past the gardens, and make her way to a ruined temple to mate with an Elephant-keeper, a man from a low-class and caste at the middle of the night, and then confront her husband in the face, and refuse to profess guilt and to atone for it through a propitiatory ritual. She describes her love-making to her husband as natural, spontaneous and beautiful: “I wanted to come back to you. I feel fuller. Richer. Warmer. But not ashamed. Because I didn’t plan it. It happened. And it was …show more content…
Till the time she could not conceive, she did not make any exquisite demands but as soon as she became sure of her pregnancy, and became aware that she was carrying the heir of the royal family in her womb, she used it as a tool to win her husband on her side to humiliate her mother-in-law. Her power can be acknowledged from the fact that she makes her husband convert into her religion, thus thrashing the norms of patriarchy. She asserts herself and does not yield to the pressure of conformity. In Bali, the Queen is given an unconventional feminine role and it appears as though the woman has emboldened enough to openly express her
Both these women are able to satiate their desires by supernatural aid but the Queen in Bali is unembarrassed, bold and resolute. She has the cheek to leave the King lying next to her and slip away from the palace, past the gardens, and make her way to a ruined temple to mate with an Elephant-keeper, a man from a low-class and caste at the middle of the night, and then confront her husband in the face, and refuse to profess guilt and to atone for it through a propitiatory ritual. She describes her love-making to her husband as natural, spontaneous and beautiful: “I wanted to come back to you. I feel fuller. Richer. Warmer. But not ashamed. Because I didn’t plan it. It happened. And it was …show more content…
Till the time she could not conceive, she did not make any exquisite demands but as soon as she became sure of her pregnancy, and became aware that she was carrying the heir of the royal family in her womb, she used it as a tool to win her husband on her side to humiliate her mother-in-law. Her power can be acknowledged from the fact that she makes her husband convert into her religion, thus thrashing the norms of patriarchy. She asserts herself and does not yield to the pressure of conformity. In Bali, the Queen is given an unconventional feminine role and it appears as though the woman has emboldened enough to openly express her