In Poile Sengupta's Inner Laws, patriarchy is depicted as a complex home performance in which daily interactions, marital traditions, and family rituals serve as a platform for imposing hierarchy and discipline. In order to uphold family honour and tradition, the play examines how authority and control are dramatically enacted within the home, anchoring roles for both men and women that sustain violence, silence, and subordination. In addition to direct dominance by male leaders, Sengupta highlights the ways in which patriarchal authority is maintained by the cooperation and competitive positioning of women, who internalise patriarchal norms and replicate them against one another. Inner Laws reveals how domestic discipline is not just a set of rules but an active, continuous spectacle through acts of moral policing, symbolic gestures, and the normalisation of suffering. At the same time, forcing characters to conform to gendered expectations erase their true agency and voice. Thus, the abstract presents the family as a dynamic microcosm of patriarchy, where resistance is deeply entwined with emotional survival and moral ambiguity, and violence is ritualised.