And show that you can be free and independent in your existence, without actually talking about it. There are a couple of characters which are very well etched out. The way people lived, what they valued and what they did not, the depiction of men and women. Most importantly without actually everyone else to follow your route.Īs with all period works, this work is also a peep into the lives and times at the turn of last century. The way people lived, what they valued and what they did not. And keep interpreting or misinterpreting it.Īs with all period works, this work is also a peep into the lives and times at the turn of last century. Till then you just assume or presume your freedom.
When all your conditioning go, that is when you are free in the true sense of that word. Through there are many angles in the book, to me this was the most important one.
Even the people he would have never touched. And he feels belonging equally to everyone with no rules to follow. In the end, when the main protagonist Gora discovers that he is not a Hindu, he had put on himself and on the people around him assuming that they are Hindus and hence ought to live like Hindus, suddenly go away. But at the other end, it highlights all the conditioning that each character lives through and operates from. And the oppression that they have to go through. You almost end up asking " Do these characters do anything other than talking through the day? " At one level Gora is a simple story of people from different communities falling in love. The story is very simple but the author goes into great detail in the conversations between the characters who indulge endlessly in discussing the ideologies and what should be done. Their strong conditioning that come4s from being a part of the sects. And the most prominent being the layer of the two sects and its followers. Like all good fictions, this is also written in layers. Protagonists are not people but two sects Hindus and Brahma Samaj. The story of the book Gora is a piece of fiction that is set in Calcutta around the end of 19th or beginning of 20th century. It simply difference between British on Indian society.
In any estimate it deserves to be one of the most important novels in Bengali literature.
Gora is the biggest novel of Rabindra Nath Tagore.
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