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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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
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 - Dec 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Enemy
short stories
Upanishads
Bhagavad-Gita
investigates
paramatman
antarkarana

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