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Play: Name, Place, Animal, Thing by Annie Zaidi

 Deeply stratified, with the history of feudalism.

The caste system is interlinked with patriarchy, intersectionality is shown where the first point of change, rooted in empathy, guilt, can only start from women? Patriarchy is the core of the caste as well.

Domestic boys can stand up for themselves, so they are not preferred, whereas girls cannot, and are. Marriage = Domestic staff, but even if the family is rich enough, domestic servitude is still implicitly expected by the wife. 


When someone is accepted or indentured into a house to live with their masters (live-in maids), the feudalism system kicks in, the master of the house (king of the castle) feels entitled. 


When Shalu recognises her priorities and his injustices, Malik has no choice but to engage with the conflict served right, and Malik loses his power once his authority is challenged XD! When his root of power (boiling down only to physical threats—Like Malik doesn’t even own the house?? It’s registered in Shalu’s name??) fails, he is effectively helpless, and falls, which feels like a symbolic breath of change.


interesting thread i’d like to commend; the Power dynamic becomes overwhelmingly evident in the name given. An association of prestige and the determination of fate can almost be seen directly in the choice of “making (saying) names” verbally. Names can be used as illusion to alleviate the indexing of caste. Some people turn to conversion of religions to escape the prejudice of intercaste discrimination. 


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w_vNkhiIa-OupE3H7HTdmoC5PXg9ghfO/view 

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