Raju As A Slavery

The second level of novel describes the role of Raju as a convict. Even this role he performed with enthusiasm becoming an ideal prisoner. Raju did not drift into jail; he was taken there for a deliberate act of forgery. This was the act in which he did deliberately. But he was surprised to see that such trivial action should bring down such dreadful consequences on his head. When he comes out of jail, he retires to an old temple by the river he comes to be reversed as a holy man.
Thus, his life is a service of improvisations. His quick adjustment to the role of a saint falls in line with similar improvisation done throughout his life. The story of his life is the story of his errors and self-deception. Raju accepts the role of Sanyasi. It …show more content…
The qualities that he always realized as his nature– to be involved with people to anticipate their needs and fulfill them– are raising to a mythical level. Identifying with his real role in the present world and releases himself from it and from the wheel of existence. He also prefers to cross the limits of life by drifting himself into ambitious abnormal adventures of life and tested the bitter fruits of life as inevitable results of Karma but Raju raises himself from above the other people by releasing himself eternally from the …show more content…
Here, it maintains the logic of irony. His every action furthers the grand design-which is finally completed when he is compelled to attain a saint’s martyrdom. For example, he starts telling Velan an ancient religious tale, but suddenly, he realizes that he does not remember- “Either its course or its purport.”(17) and he suddenly stops his history. But this does not upset Velan. Again as he sits deeply thinking as to where he should go next, the villagers think that Swami is lost in deep meditation. The fact becomes clear that in the primary stage Raju is changed into a holy man without any conscience effort on his part. Here the irony reveals in a flash all the deep seated complexities of human nature. Here, Raju has to pay heavy penalty. He enjoys the full advantage of the innocence of the villagers. True devotion of those villagers had upset Raju’s mind. Their devotion is pronounced that Raju has started to feel that his: “personality radiated a glory” (94) and “he had created a giant with his puny self.” (96) This complexity of human motives is reflected in Raju’s reactions to his plight. He is afraid of getting exposed but he cannot evade from the present situation. He is not even the concerned that he has transgressed the limits of matra. Thus the fact becomes clear that the central theme is concerned with the scene of matra and man’s transgression of it. People gathered round Raju for his Darshan and brought him food,