Imagining the 'enemy': Adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories

Mohammad A. Quayum

doi:10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.09

Imagining the 'enemy': Adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories

Mohammad A. Quayum

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This essay investigates Rabindranath Tagore's portrayal of antagonists or adversarial characters in a select body of his short stories, and argues that his perception of the antagonist is rooted in the influences of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita on his literary sensibility. Cut off from the paramatman and their antarkarana, his antagonists live in adviya and in rajasic or tamasic states.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	70-81
Number of pages	12
Journal	Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Volume	8
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.09
Publication status	Published - 14 Jan 2017
Externally published	Yes

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© AesthetixMS2016. This Open Access article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For citation use the DOI. For commercial re-use, please contact editor@rupkatha.com.

Keywords

'Enemy'
Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories
antagonist
Adversarial Roles

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