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This is an essay on The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore. The novel revolves around a landowner couple whose domestic life is diverted by the arrival of an agitator, an erstwhile friend turned free loader who, through rowdily religious and ultra nationalist slogans, whips up passions within the household. He seduces his friend’s wife Bimala and arouses inter religious feelings amongst the landowner’s workers which lead to riots and ultimately to the death of the landowner.
The novel revolves around a landowner couple whose domestic life is diverted by the arrival of an agitator, an erstwhile friend turned free loader who, through rowdily religious and ultra nationalist slogans, whips up passions within the household. He seduces his friend’s wife Bimala and arouses inter religious feelings amongst the landowner’s workers which lead to riots and ultimately to the death of the landowner. Thus, through the prism of family relations, the eruption of terrorism is examined. The vile manner in which the character of the terrorist is symbolize and this by a hitherto enthusiastic nationalist writer leaves no room for doubt as to the repugnance Tagore felt for the terrorist method of political action. It gave people a false wisdom of bravado, inciting them to nihilistic empty violence. This was Tagore’s philosophy throughout, that even though independence was enviable, narrow sectarian thinking would be stifling.
Sandip the terrorist is represented as vain, brash and superficial. He tries to seduce Bimala not due to any strong emotion but to feed his narcissism. He revels in her abjection when at the end she is absolutely humiliated. He convinces her to rob from her husband for the terrorist cause. Even Bimala sporadically finds him deceitful and vulgar but she is swept along by his energy and daring. Contrasting the calm and controlled Nikhil, he is impetuous and immature.
“But the real thing is that we have this burning at heart, (…) while we are on fire let us seethe and boil”. To which Nikhil’s guru listening to him retorts: “Seethe by all means but do not mistake it for work or heroism. Nations which have got on in the world have done so by action not by ebullition”. (70-71)
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