HND 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dowry
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Dance like a man notes: the play opens with ratna"s daughter lata who brings her fiancee to her parents home. Through their conversations we get a slight idea of the family history, the nature of. Lata"s parents and a little about their ancestry. Just when lata"s fiancee is in the process of imitating her grandfather, lata"s parents enter. Some confusion seems to envelope the entire household. Lata"s mother makes a big fuss about her debut dance performance before the entire nation: dancers are considered not any better than prostitutes, and it is considered like a stigma in south asia. The part where amritlal talks about reforming women and jairaj asks him to let them practise their art, he says encourage open prostitution? bai reference from. The music room: the play uses irony" to convey a powerful topic, also, anything related to the arts is not a career, it is just considered a hobby.
