The Home and The World by Rabindranath Tagore

 The Home and The World by Rabindranath Tagore

The Home and the World is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set against the political and logistical nightmares of India’s 20th century caste system. Although the story focuses on the dynamic of a marriage—which shifts when a shadowy outsider enters the lives of the couple—much of the novel reads like a philosophical treatise. There are shifting viewpoints between the characters Bimala, Nikhil, and Sandip, and much of the book comprises their internal and external dialogues as they consider serious issues such as tradition, the roles of men and women in Indian culture, the nature of political change, the occasional need for violence in political activism, and other rhetorical exercises such as the weighing of the public good.

Q-1  To see the growth of individual character

The individual growth of the character is vital role of the Novel. Tagor mentione so many different angles in  character. Some point you find out. The major character of the Novel. He is one of the revolutionary Man. He has good command over the speech to attract any person would have been participated in his idea about against the western civilization.vWho is the pioneer of Rally which was in Bangal during the partition time. His revolutionary ideas makes effect on Bimala’s Character.

Q-2 Physiological growth of character:-

In this novel Tagor use of Physiology terms. So  this novel influence in character Physiology.  His movem fleshly feelings make him harbor delusions about his reli- seemin gion and impel him into a tyrannical attitude in his patri- sive nai otism. His nature is coarse, and so he glorifies his selfish more h lusts under high-sounding names". At one point he vivacio convinces Bimala to steal from her house and herhusband his mo for the "cause". Sandip's presence in the novel concludes believe with him flecing whike his speeches and ideas result communal riots. money. by the Bhaga of the Sandip's first name is translated to "with dipa (light fire flame)". According to the notes in the novel this is used to describe him as "in flaming, exciting, arousing". Sandip's last name "Babu" originated as an aristocratic titk that has come to describe Bengalis educated in the west or comparable settings. The British used "Babu" as a patro- Indian nising tem; its use as an honorific title survives in India his dut of the trates t for nati poem u Indepe yiekd in today. cause, clearly Nation.

Q-3 Rabindranath Tagore's art of characterization :

Tagore was a good writer and novelist and he was specially written in Bengali languag litrature. So his character is different identify. His characterization, though dependent on realistic psychological exploration, does not involve any existentialist choice, as it were, since he is content with lying bare such determinants as are capable of clarifying social relationship and responsibilities deriving from the character’s engagement with life. Tagore was not a committed experimentalist; but to deny him any formal expertise or to judge him solely on the basis of recent innovation in novelistic technique would be indeed far from it. The art of characterization in Tagore’s novels, suffer from a certain weakness of craftsmanship which results in a kind of diffuseness and looseness a ‘flabbiness’ of narrative. 

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