Question

The lost jewels by rabindranath tagore critical analysis

Answer 1

In Rabindranath Tagore’s short story The Lost Jewels, Tagore allows the reader to consider the endless possible outcomes to his story and the message or central idea and theme that he imparts. The central idea is considered in the title and reveals the context of the poem. The central idea is a more direct interpretation than the theme which helps the reader understand the broader or universal appeal of the story. Tagore allows himself the ease of using many Hindi words like Ghat in the stories. The usual setting of his stories is a river ghat and a rural village; not to mention the middle people for it is obvious. He has a nerve to glorify his female character and make the males characters suffer in most of his work. A story is a hundred times its worth when the writer touches upon the internal world of the characters rather than just sticking to the externals. Tagore has this wonderful blend of characteristics with which he spins his yarns to mesmerize the reader. The Lost Jewels is no deviation from this trend. Being born in an enslaved British India he was skeptical and apprehensive of the Americanization sweeping the lengths and breadths of the country. The Lost Jewels merely serves as a surrogate though which he shoots his arrows of sarcasm.The inception of the story is typically Indian. The narrator comes and sits near the author (presumably). He was a sort of person who was bubbling with inquisitiveness right from the top to bottom. The sequence of questions and answers is again a typical Indian gossip.