Summary of bhaktin written by mahadevi verma
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Mahadevi Varma's writing went along three lines - poetry, essays and life sketches. Bhaktin is an example of the third genre, life sketches.
Unlike her poems, Mahadevi had no literary precedent when she started writing sketches of the people around her--according to her own dating, in 1920. [. . .] the sketches were not initially meant for publication but rather to preserve in her memory those "individuals who gave movement and direction to my thinking and sensibility. [. . .] the subjects of these memoirs, rather than being objects of exhibition, have been the objects of my imperishable affection. [1]
Thus, it becomes obvious that Varma had great regard and love for the people she chose as her subjects, and it is obvious that the sketch Bhaktin is a tribute to its subject, her maid.
Compared with her essays, here Mahadevi's emotional involvement in the people she wrote about is unmistakable: these are not sociological observations but moving life stories. [1]
The story begins with a poignant line, describing the subject and establishes the author's long relationship with her.
छोटे कद और दुबले शरीरवाली भक्तिन अपने पतले ओठों के कोनों में दृढ़ संकल्प और छोटी आँखों में एक विचित्र समझदारी लेकर जिस दिन पहले-पहले मेरे पास आ उपस्थित हुई थी तब से आज तक एक युग का समय बीत चुका है। [2]
An entire era has passed since the day short and slim bodied Bhaktin, carrying firm resolve in the corners of her thin lips and an unusual intelligence in her small eyes, first appeared before me.
Varma then follows her companion's story and lays it out poignantly for the reader.
The four chapters in her maid Bhaktin's life all see her battling against difficult circumstances with hard work and dignity: first as a young bride married into a poorer family of cowherds by an overzealous father and cheated out of her inheritance when he dies; then as a hardworking daughter-in-law who, after producing only daughters, sets up a house and defends it strenuously after the death of her husband. In the third chapter of her life she manages well with her widowed daughter, who has come back to live with her, until her in-laws set a plot to entrap her daughter with a complacent, good-for-nothing nephew. After he locks himself in a hut with her, the panchayat resolves that they must be married and Bhaktin is once again cheated out of her property. "This insult became the biggest black mark on her industriousness," and rather than being dependent on them Bhaktin goes to the city and becomes Mahadevi's most loyal and idiosyncratic companion. [1]
Unlike her poems, Mahadevi had no literary precedent when she started writing sketches of the people around her--according to her own dating, in 1920. [. . .] the sketches were not initially meant for publication but rather to preserve in her memory those "individuals who gave movement and direction to my thinking and sensibility. [. . .] the subjects of these memoirs, rather than being objects of exhibition, have been the objects of my imperishable affection. [1]
Thus, it becomes obvious that Varma had great regard and love for the people she chose as her subjects, and it is obvious that the sketch Bhaktin is a tribute to its subject, her maid.
Compared with her essays, here Mahadevi's emotional involvement in the people she wrote about is unmistakable: these are not sociological observations but moving life stories. [1]
The story begins with a poignant line, describing the subject and establishes the author's long relationship with her.
छोटे कद और दुबले शरीरवाली भक्तिन अपने पतले ओठों के कोनों में दृढ़ संकल्प और छोटी आँखों में एक विचित्र समझदारी लेकर जिस दिन पहले-पहले मेरे पास आ उपस्थित हुई थी तब से आज तक एक युग का समय बीत चुका है। [2]
An entire era has passed since the day short and slim bodied Bhaktin, carrying firm resolve in the corners of her thin lips and an unusual intelligence in her small eyes, first appeared before me.
Varma then follows her companion's story and lays it out poignantly for the reader.
The four chapters in her maid Bhaktin's life all see her battling against difficult circumstances with hard work and dignity: first as a young bride married into a poorer family of cowherds by an overzealous father and cheated out of her inheritance when he dies; then as a hardworking daughter-in-law who, after producing only daughters, sets up a house and defends it strenuously after the death of her husband. In the third chapter of her life she manages well with her widowed daughter, who has come back to live with her, until her in-laws set a plot to entrap her daughter with a complacent, good-for-nothing nephew. After he locks himself in a hut with her, the panchayat resolves that they must be married and Bhaktin is once again cheated out of her property. "This insult became the biggest black mark on her industriousness," and rather than being dependent on them Bhaktin goes to the city and becomes Mahadevi's most loyal and idiosyncratic companion. [1]
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Verma's writing was comprised three aspects and these include ; poetry, essays and life sketches. She used Bhaktin is an example to try explain third life sketches that she was referring in his writing. Like it has been in many poems Verma in her writing she has no literary precedent and this is evident when she wrote life sketches of the people whom she lived with. In the year 1920 which was her own dating she stated that the life sketches that she wrote were to be preserved to be used in future and not to be published. CMM
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