Seduction of the Innocent

Rabindranath Tagore,recipient of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, is an internationally acclaimed Indian writer who wrote in Bengali.One of the distinctive as well as recurrent aspects of his fiction is his skilful handling of bold,freedom-seeking women characters.In many of his novels and short stories he takes care to show his women adopting unconventional stand to give vent to their feminine voice in a traditional Hindu society,which can undoubtedly be referred to, in Tennyson’s words, as…

3 Chapter 2. Tess, the tragedy of an unfair existence 14 Chapter 3. Rape or seduction? 27 Chapter 4. Anna Karenina and Tess of the D’Urbervilles, a tragic destiny…

5 Chapter 2. Tess, the tragedy of an unfair existence 15 Chapter 3. Rape or seduction? 28 Chapter 4. Anna Karenina and Tess of the D’Urbervilles, a tragic destiny 43 Chapter 5. Conclusions…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…