CHAPTER I
CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE ASPECTS OF RELATIONSHIP IN ACCORDANCE WITH INDIA’S CULTURE AND TRADITION
Divakaruni portrays the importance of love and marriage through her characters in the novel. She brilliantly moves the plot with the bond of marital relationship that exists between the couples. She also depicts the actual idea that exhibit within the tradition, culture and religion of India with a strong implication to the characteristics of relationship. Divakaruni also states the tension and suspense that revolves within the story by emphasizing each and every character. She tries to bring out the reality of relationship that can state as symbol of successful life, if only the meaning of love, trust, understanding and sacrifice …show more content…
She tries to bring out the differences between the traditional and modern world’s concept of life in the major context to that of the marriage. Divakaruni is an amazing story teller who conveys the important factors of family, marriage and love between the spouses. There are so many couples in this novel like, Sarojini and Bimal Roy, Mr. and Mrs. Boses, Mitra and Seema and Rajat and Korobi. Divakaruni articulates that relationship has different layers of interpretation with their own contribution to the marital life, by stating two extremely contrary couples: Sarojini and Bimal and Rajat and Korobi.
Sarojini and Bimal are the old couple who gives importance for traditional culture and religion of India. Their views and ideas of life are based upon India’s traditional values and morals. Their aspect of love and marriage is entirely different from the other two couples. Rajat and Korobi are youngest couple who is partially traditional and partially modern. They stabilized their love life with the concept of understanding. They created a strong bond between them by knowing each other intensely before committing them into the union of marital …show more content…
This kind of relationship conveys the aspects in marital bond of the olden days, where woman is not treated equally to that of man to put across her own views and ideas. Bimal takes control on Sarojini in every major steps of their life but he gave her full freedom inside the house to manage the family. In several situations of life, Bimal has humiliated Sarojini. In one particular stage of life, Sarojini begged and even wept which is not common for her and mortified to keep the child at home but he didn’t take account of her words, instead he arranged boarding school for
CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE ASPECTS OF RELATIONSHIP IN ACCORDANCE WITH INDIA’S CULTURE AND TRADITION
Divakaruni portrays the importance of love and marriage through her characters in the novel. She brilliantly moves the plot with the bond of marital relationship that exists between the couples. She also depicts the actual idea that exhibit within the tradition, culture and religion of India with a strong implication to the characteristics of relationship. Divakaruni also states the tension and suspense that revolves within the story by emphasizing each and every character. She tries to bring out the reality of relationship that can state as symbol of successful life, if only the meaning of love, trust, understanding and sacrifice …show more content…
She tries to bring out the differences between the traditional and modern world’s concept of life in the major context to that of the marriage. Divakaruni is an amazing story teller who conveys the important factors of family, marriage and love between the spouses. There are so many couples in this novel like, Sarojini and Bimal Roy, Mr. and Mrs. Boses, Mitra and Seema and Rajat and Korobi. Divakaruni articulates that relationship has different layers of interpretation with their own contribution to the marital life, by stating two extremely contrary couples: Sarojini and Bimal and Rajat and Korobi.
Sarojini and Bimal are the old couple who gives importance for traditional culture and religion of India. Their views and ideas of life are based upon India’s traditional values and morals. Their aspect of love and marriage is entirely different from the other two couples. Rajat and Korobi are youngest couple who is partially traditional and partially modern. They stabilized their love life with the concept of understanding. They created a strong bond between them by knowing each other intensely before committing them into the union of marital …show more content…
This kind of relationship conveys the aspects in marital bond of the olden days, where woman is not treated equally to that of man to put across her own views and ideas. Bimal takes control on Sarojini in every major steps of their life but he gave her full freedom inside the house to manage the family. In several situations of life, Bimal has humiliated Sarojini. In one particular stage of life, Sarojini begged and even wept which is not common for her and mortified to keep the child at home but he didn’t take account of her words, instead he arranged boarding school for