Discursivity of Family Relations: A Foucauldian Reading of Gopal Prasad Rimal’s Masan
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Gopal Prasad Rimal’s Masan reflects how inequality of privileges appears as
normal in an ordinary Nepali family with males at the decisive roles, and females at
the periphery. Helen performs herself accordingly with patriarchy because she has
internalized the patriarchal ethos. In patriarchy, power creates that the powerless
recapitulate. In Nepalese society males are in the position of power. They create
certain images of women and of themselves on the basis of binary opposition. They
treat female according to their self constructed images and discourse. That discourse
works in the society as truth and all the social members believe that it is true, essential
and natural. For instance,Helenone of the major figures of the play Masan
internalizes the beliefs and value established by patriarchy. She accepts all her images
and runs insearch of maternity to geta son. At this moment, her all activities show
the internalization of patriarchy in the whole play, because she accepts all the
patriarchal values as a kind of truth.