Tagore’s Punishment focuses on the dehumanization of women and the expression of their incapability in society by lacking a valuable role or ability of authentic work. As domestic duties serve as a woman’s full-time job, the title of this story continuously represents the unchanging fortune of women, including a life of punishment and mistreatment. Through a family feud involving the bond between brothers, Dukhiram Rui, husband of Chandara, and Chidam Rui, husband of Radha, Chidam murders his wife leading to the accusation of innocent Chandara, which results in her hanging through a trial of dishonestly and wrongful actions. Through these acts, one can see the unfair importance of husbands over wives in Indian society. In rural India, this
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Men sense a particular higher noteworthiness over their wives, who serve as worthless women that lack a purpose in society, but to cook, clean, and child bear. Tagore expresses this as, “If I lose my wife I can get another, but if my brother is hanged, how can I replace him?” (966). In comparison to America, although brotherhood serves a particular importance to many here, so do wives; this observation may be due to the additional freedoms here from the ability to work, but the punishment Indian women receive of dehumanization seems dramatic and unnecessary.
Again, the brothers stand together, even through the murder of one murdering their wife, as females are viewed as insignificant. In the Tagore’s Folio Forum, Madisyn Tuccillo acknowledges, “there is a constant theme of making women invisible and powerless.” Through the significance of gender roles in this account, woman remains punished for an aspect of life that they cannot alter making them “invisible” and “powerless.” As women are born into a society of unworthiness, I agree with Tuccillo, but as the tension of being helpless builds up, there is bound to be change brought about in the
Men sense a particular higher noteworthiness over their wives, who serve as worthless women that lack a purpose in society, but to cook, clean, and child bear. Tagore expresses this as, “If I lose my wife I can get another, but if my brother is hanged, how can I replace him?” (966). In comparison to America, although brotherhood serves a particular importance to many here, so do wives; this observation may be due to the additional freedoms here from the ability to work, but the punishment Indian women receive of dehumanization seems dramatic and unnecessary.
Again, the brothers stand together, even through the murder of one murdering their wife, as females are viewed as insignificant. In the Tagore’s Folio Forum, Madisyn Tuccillo acknowledges, “there is a constant theme of making women invisible and powerless.” Through the significance of gender roles in this account, woman remains punished for an aspect of life that they cannot alter making them “invisible” and “powerless.” As women are born into a society of unworthiness, I agree with Tuccillo, but as the tension of being helpless builds up, there is bound to be change brought about in the