Class 12 English
Chapter 21
Broken Images
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Thinking about the play
1. How genuine is the love that Manjula expresses for her sister?
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2. The sister does not appear in the play but is central to it. What
picture of her is built in your mind from references in the play?
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3. When the image says—‘Her illness was unfortunate. But
because of it, she got the best of everything’
(i) What is the nature of Manjula’s reply?
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(ii) How can it be related to what follows in the play?
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4. What are the issues that the playwright satirises through this
TV monologue of a celebrity?
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Taking about the play
1. ‘Broken Images’ takes up a debate that has grown steadily since
1947—the politics of language in Indian literary culture,
specifically in relation to modern Indian languages and English.
Discuss.
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2. The play deals with a Kannada woman writer who unexpectedly
produces an international bestseller in English.
(i) Can a writer be a truly bilingual practitioner?
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(ii) Does writing in an ‘other tongue’ amount to betrayal of the
mother tongue?
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Appreciation
1. Why do you think the playwright has used the technique of
the image in the play?
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2. The play is called a monologue. Why is it made to turn dialogic?
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3. What is the posture the celebrity adopts when the camera is
on and when it is off?
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