character sketch of yassin in the one act play refugee
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Yassin is the character of Asif Currimbhoy's one-act play, 'The refugee.'
The plot revolves around a young Muslim refugee Yassin, who is a student in a university in East Pakistan or East Bengal. Yassin flees to India from East Pakistan after miraculously escaping the 'intellectual massacre' of university scholars by the Pakistani military ruler Yahya Khan.
Yassin is a closed character, an introvert who sits smugly in his comfortable cocoon in the house of Sen Gupta. He was neither involved in the freedom struggle in East Pakistan nor concerned with the refugees in India. Yet, according to Yassin, he had survived miraculously “to continue living without passing judgment, interesting or helping," which hints at his reason for abstaining from the misery around.
Apathetic Yassin sees action as interference, not help, which can bring tragedies instead of solving problems. Nevertheless, Yassin’s acknowledgment somehow justifies his act of departure.
When he overhears Sen Gupta's words, Yassin manages to overcome the barrier of narrow self-interest, which Sen Gupta and Professor Mosin fail to do. It is the first time he shows his allegiance to Pakistan and proves his concern for the lives of the innocents.
Defending Sen Gupta, who accused him as a traitor, Yassin says, “... I will never be a traitor to my mother’s love... or to Bengal....You must allow me... freedom of thought and action, or else you deprive me of refuge in this very house of yours”. A trace of transformation in Yassin's character is evident here.
As the play progresses, it presents a psychic transformation of Yassin, a shock-shaped self, a condemned insensitive refugee, and finally, an awakened patriot.
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