Analyze A Tiger for Malgudi as an allegory
A Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, Malgudi not only
passes from a semi-agricultural town to a semiindustrial town with a sudden
influx of the population of sorts, but also it experiences the gradual collapse
of the enriched and long preserved cultural heritage of spirituality and
emotionality which further promoted the tightening grip of rationalized
modernity. A Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, The Painter of Signs, a
sprightly and vivacious tale of love, is the pensive story of Raman, a painter
of signs and Daisy, family planning zealot of Malgudi.
Their love story did not materialize into marriage as
both are dedicated to diametrically opposite causes. Roman lives with his aged
widow aunt in the last house of Ellaman Street, near river Saryu, in Malgudi.
He is representative of the age of reason with scientific attitude, A Tiger For
Malgudi As An Allegory, who professes: “Be scientific please, scientific.”4
Considering himself as a rationalist, he wishes “to establish the Age of Reason
in the world”, and even carries it to his profession. A Tiger For Malgudi As An
Allegory, But his sudden meeting with Daisy who contacts him for painting the
sign board for her clinic, carrying the inscription “Family Plannign Centre,
Free Advice”, shakes his intellectual rationalism as he is enslaved by the
attractive lady and passionately falls in love with her.
A Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, Absorbed in erotic
thoughts and imaginations, he begins to behave and act like a romantic to enjoy
the blissful company of his beloved Daisy. Daisy too is much impressed with the
intellectual and aesthetic exuberance of the painter. A Tiger For Malgudi As An
Allegory, Despite his strong determination to offer his best services, she
gives him a cold response. Depressed and dejected by his momentary failure in
his aggressive love-efforts, he tries to reconcile himself to the realities of
life and refrains himself to visit her for a time being.
A Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, Daisy was assigned
with the important task of convincing the ignorant rural masses about the
family planning. She asks Raman to paint the sign board, advocating two-child
norm for families. Appalled by her hard-edged zeal for work, Raman accompanies
her like “A sort of trailer” but without any recognition of usefulness. His
obsession with her provokes various postures in his novel and he becomes morbid
and revengeful with salacious notions of seducing her.
A Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, Incidentally on their
way back to Malgudi, the bullock of their carriage gets hurt in the leg,
necessitating a change in the programme. They are stranded on the road to spend
the night. Raman’s suppressed erotic desires accelerate his burning passions in
the solitariness of the romantic night. A Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, Cautious
Daisy foiled the molesting attempt of Raman by climbing upon the branch of a
tamarind tree and passing her night there. Daisy threatens him with dire
consequences and police arrest if he again tries to break his limitations by
wrong advances.
Thus, the tour ends on a very unpleasant note and he
finally decides not to see her in future. A Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, Barely,
a fortnight later, their dead relationship is enlivened by their meeting as
lovers because Daisy, who poses to be cool and frigid, comes out with her
essential feminine charms and her real passions. A Tiger For Malgudi As An
Allegory, They enjoy privacies of married couple. Raman was so enthusiastic
with this development that against the wishes of his aged aunt who is against
his inter-caste marriage with Daisy and who has brought him up and looked after
him for thirty years, he proposes her for marriage.
Unable to come to terms with Raman’s passion for Daisy, A
Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, she leaves for Banaras, to spend the rest of
the life upto her end in the feet of the Lord Viswanath. But the modernized
Daisy opposes the idea of marriage as she does not want herself reduced to a
domestic drudge. She tells him that they can easily live as man and woman under
the same room without the obligation of a married life. Though she hands over
physically herself to Raman, A Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, but she
remains dedicated to her job as uppermost in her life. She finally decides
marriage is not for her and “leaves Raman to suffer the bitter-sweet pangs of
separation an unfulfilled love.
A Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, There is a sigh on
her lips too.” Disillusioned Raman realizing the truth, returns back to the
reality of life. The Painter of Signs shows the constant conflict between the
real and the ideal while dealing with serious problems of industrialism and
materialism and it’s negative impact on the youth power of the nation; the
social clash of customized people versus scientific-rational youths; the
problem of unemployment, education, communalism and the uncontrollable growth
of the population etc.
A Tiger For Malgudi As An Allegory, The story of Raman
and Daisy introduces the wind of change destroying the valuable assets of
Indian social-structure – the family and its holy customs. Narayan positively
shows the image of “A Malgudi that is quivering between tradition and
modernity, East and West inextricably mixed up.”8 It is that conflict which
creates the “psychological and social tensions involved in the money
conjunctions of old ways and new evolving values.
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