• Archana Dahiya

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• Itika Dahiya

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The present paper entitled “Dislocated ‘Selves’ and Alienated ‘Souls’ in Eugene
O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape and Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana” is an attempt to exhibit the plight of
modern man in this age of industrialization and technological advancements that has converted
their whole selves into something more complex and distorted personalities. This imperfect and
disorganized figure is represented by Yank in O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape and Devadatta, Kapila,
Padmini and Hayavadana in Karnad’s Hayavadana. The blurred identity is also the end-product
of the modern era of capitalism and entangled human relationships. The paper traces in these
dramas an inherent affinity with Existentialism and Expressionism that concentrates on the
dislocation and alienation of the modern protagonists that are having their existence in the void
world ungoverned by the laws of God.

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