Question

The message of Chandalika is that the value of a human being resides in a loving heart, not in caste! - Discus​

Answer 1

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In the drama, the mother is portrayed as a satisfied chandal woman who had no complaints with her life and the norms imposed upon her. Her daughter's love and philosophies were impalpable to her. She persistently warned her and was scared for her daughter.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Tagore's Chandalika is a powerful critique of Indian society that ignores and deprives a large community of its fundamental rights and dignity, labeling them as subhuman untouchables.

Explanation:

• Tagore's play conveys a message of equality without regard for caste or creed.
• He also emphasized that everyone has a single identity and is eager to live according to his or her own viewpoint.
• Tagore intertwines Love's many manifestations in Chandalika, resulting in a struggle bordering on violence.
• The central theme of the play Chandalika is a chandal girl's awareness that she is a human being like others and that it is a mistake for her to believe that she is beneath the concern of those from higher castes.
• In other words, the play's primary theme is the awakening of her sense of self as a chandal girl, as well as her newly gained understanding that being born as a chandal girl does not imply that she is a non-entity.
• Prakriti is the Chandal girl in this play, who finds that she is just as much a human being as anybody else and that she, too, has the right to offer water to everyone who requests it, rich or poor.
• This understanding not only gives her a sense of self-identity but also causes her to fall in love with a Buddhist monk who is responsible for her newfound awareness.
• However, Prakriti's love for the Buddhist monk is not the play's main focus. Her love for that man stems from her newfound understanding that she is a human being, which he gave to her.
• Her falling in love with him, though, demonstrates her presumptuousness.  If a woman falls in love with a man, whoever he is, she commits no sin; but, Prakriti's falling in love with a Buddhist monk is a sin, and a serious one at that, because Buddhist monks are obligated to stay celibate.
• The drama invokes creative, renunciatory, and sacrificial Love in Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian traditions.
• For many, the play has been a psychological drama or a spiritual conflict.
• Such readings of us, on the other hand, eliminate the play's core social themes, such as casteism and sexuality, making the play more of a social chronicle than a mere stage display of amusement and aesthetics.
• Tagore's Chandalika is a striking critique of Indian society, which overlooks and deprives a significant group of basic rights and dignity, designating them as subhuman untouchables.
• The dominating social groupings of upper-caste Hindus have a large share of responsibility for the heinous acts of inhumanity and cruelty.
• Chandalika's story contains proof of subaltern resistance to Brahmanical power, as well as an exploration of various avenues of atonement.

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