Abstract
The “seeming” “color” of the dominant narrative in Shakespeare’s play, King
Henry IV is to strengthen and reinforce the conventional socio-cultural
constructs like duty, honor, glory, nobility, war, peace and patriotism as
absolutes, but this apparent dominant narrative is subverted and undermined by
the existence of alternative micro-narratives, which challenge and expose the
reality of these absolutes as socio-cultural constructs invented by the status quo
and the dominant ideology. These alternative micro-narratives highlight the
inherent contradictions involving these socio-cultural constructs and human
subjectivities, thereby showing them as split and dispersed, their alleged
unification, as merely a pack of myths and lies. The current study means to
show that the text of the play manifests postmodernist and deconstructionist
perspectivism, pluralism and multiplicity. This applies both to the text and the
subjectivities of the characters. The study is to be undertaken in the light of
postmodernist and deconstructionist theoretical framework.
Dr. Muhammad Ayub Jajja. (2020) SUBVERSION OF DOMINANT SOCIO-CULTURAL CONSTRUCTS IN KING HENRY IV: A POSTMODERNIST-DECONSTRUCTIONIST STUDY, International Journal of Management Research and Emerging Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 1.
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