Existentialism and Conjugal Relationship: A Study of Mahesh Dattani's Uma and the Fairy Queen

<p>A conjugal relationship is generally defined as a relationship<br>between married partners who are interdependent socially,<br>financially, physically, and emotionally. There is another less<br>popular description of the term. The term is also applied to<br>define the relationship in which two partners live like a<br>married couple but are not married. This paper studies<br>Mahesh Dattani’s radio plays Uma and the Fairy Queen in<br>the light of both senses of the term. Dattani has presented two<br>married couples in the play who are married but their<br>marriages are catastrophic alliances. The study of the play<br>aims at locating the cause that has transformed their<br>marriages into toxic relationships. The paper also tends to<br>discover the impact of existentialism on a conjugal<br>relationship which is usually considered a universal social<br>institution.</p>