Charateristics of munshi vanshidhar in hindi
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Gheesu is the portrayal of an old man in his sixties in Munshi Premchand’s Kafan. His frail frame culminates into a famished face which are suggestive of his condition, and of many of his counterparts in the village.
Gheesu might look like a poor farmer suffering in the hands of destiny, but its more because of his own laziness and slacking attitude that he’s left to rot. Being an old slacker he’s too optimistic on his survival as he feeds not just on the food stolen or given out of compassion, but the human weakness of compassion.
Apart from being ill reputed in the village for being a completely untrustworthy slacker, he possesses the knack to get things done and make do with almost any situation in hand, and that too limiting to his own survival. He loves his son and has raised him almost as his own prototype, but doesn’t feel any special affection for his daughter in law, downgrading the status of women as just a creature taking care of the household.
Gheesu, is not ashamed of lying, even if its about the last rites of his daughter in law. At the onset of the story he’s depicted as a mean old man, but well towards the end, he picks up gray shades in his character.
He is unruffled in all situations, just working his way like a leech, for his own survival. Even after he knew his daughter in law died of their negligence, he consoled his son madhav by saying that she’s got a promised place in the heavens because she died for their good. He’s shown at his manipulative best in such pieces. He was not too happy for his unborn grandson, because he dint want to see another one suffering for food with them, and here he shows certain grayish patch.
Gheesu tells in the story that he was blessed with 9 boys, but here only Madhav is with him. It suggests that he has suffered loss in his life, have seen his family dying, and now being aware of the ultimate truth he just rots behind helpless, and has developed a thick skin outside, which is impermeable to the sun or the rain from this world.
In a society where the condition of the farmers is as deplorable as that of these slacking loafers, Gheesu was intelligent enough not to toil in the soil to fill the Zamindar’s treasury. Towards the end of story there is certain guilt to Gheesu’s character when he prays for Baikunth (heaven) for his daughter in law, and here we can see a good hearted gheesu with shades of both black and white.
Although the society saw gheesu as a stealing, lying slacker, but he depicts tones of gray to me. There have been depictions of Gheesu stealing potatoes
Gheesu might look like a poor farmer suffering in the hands of destiny, but its more because of his own laziness and slacking attitude that he’s left to rot. Being an old slacker he’s too optimistic on his survival as he feeds not just on the food stolen or given out of compassion, but the human weakness of compassion.
Apart from being ill reputed in the village for being a completely untrustworthy slacker, he possesses the knack to get things done and make do with almost any situation in hand, and that too limiting to his own survival. He loves his son and has raised him almost as his own prototype, but doesn’t feel any special affection for his daughter in law, downgrading the status of women as just a creature taking care of the household.
Gheesu, is not ashamed of lying, even if its about the last rites of his daughter in law. At the onset of the story he’s depicted as a mean old man, but well towards the end, he picks up gray shades in his character.
He is unruffled in all situations, just working his way like a leech, for his own survival. Even after he knew his daughter in law died of their negligence, he consoled his son madhav by saying that she’s got a promised place in the heavens because she died for their good. He’s shown at his manipulative best in such pieces. He was not too happy for his unborn grandson, because he dint want to see another one suffering for food with them, and here he shows certain grayish patch.
Gheesu tells in the story that he was blessed with 9 boys, but here only Madhav is with him. It suggests that he has suffered loss in his life, have seen his family dying, and now being aware of the ultimate truth he just rots behind helpless, and has developed a thick skin outside, which is impermeable to the sun or the rain from this world.
In a society where the condition of the farmers is as deplorable as that of these slacking loafers, Gheesu was intelligent enough not to toil in the soil to fill the Zamindar’s treasury. Towards the end of story there is certain guilt to Gheesu’s character when he prays for Baikunth (heaven) for his daughter in law, and here we can see a good hearted gheesu with shades of both black and white.
Although the society saw gheesu as a stealing, lying slacker, but he depicts tones of gray to me. There have been depictions of Gheesu stealing potatoes
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