Rituparna Mitra
Volume-XIII, Issue-II, January 2025
Volume-XIII, Issue-II, January 2025 | ||
Published Online: 31.01.2025 | Page No: 51-59 | |||
Contrast
as the essence of life: Exploring different women in Abanindranath Tagore’s
Kheerer Putul
Rituparna
Mitra, M.A in English, Department of English, Cotton
University, Assam, India | |
Contrasts play a significant role in grasping ideas pertaining to life, people and situations with a certain ease. Children are often given opposite words to learn so that they can be taught which values to imbibe and what ideas to discard. Such a pair of contrasting/opposite words enable an insight into what the society expects an individual to demonstrate and uphold so that they can be accepted. In this paper, I shall endeavor to underscore certain qualities a woman is expected to possess in order to be rewarded generously and what set of qualities lead to irreversible punishment through a translated version of a popular children's book titled Kheerer Putul. This paper seeks to examine the intersecting space created by the crossing over of children literature and feminist studies as identified through ideas like reward and punishment (common in children literature) to establish the concept of an ideal woman. | |
Keywords: Contrasts, reward, punishment, children literature, feminist studies, etc. |