Abstract
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 |
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| Pages (from-to) | 70-81 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Enemy
- short stories
- Upanishads
- Bhagavad-Gita
- investigates
- paramatman
- antarkarana