Volume : 11, Issue : 1, JAN 2025

SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN ADITI BANERJEE'S THE CURSE OF GANDHARI

VINITA, DR. SHASHANK GUPTA

Abstract

Myths are particular accounts focusing Gods- Goddesses, demi-Gods and supernatural beings and exceptional events in a time which is totally different from the normal human experience. The aim of this paper is an effort to analyse Banerjee's novel The Curse of Gandhari which is mainly concerned with supernatural elements. She focuses on feminism and many critics also examine the same in this work. Supernatural elements have also taken place but mostly ignored. The term 'supernatural' means a power or force beyond normal or humanness. Banerjee portrays many sages with supernatural powers but Gandhari alone ordinary female character in the novel possessing extraordinary power. These powers of cursing and blessing someone are the results of their hard tapasya. It is seen that those people who walk on path of dharma, gets boon but those who don't, gets curse. They use these powers for those who either please them or hurt them by their behaviour.

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