Summary Of Home And The World By Rabindranath Tagore

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The title of the book “Home and the World” by famous poet Rabindranath Tagore is extremely significant. It can be interpreted at various deeper levels rather than just one. With reference to the plot and the underlying essence of the story, this title is the perfect match. It’s Bengali version of the title i.e. “Ghare Baire” is comprised of two words; “Ghare” meaning home and “Baire” meaning outside. These two words put together symbolise the view of home from the outside which is the surrounding world. The title clearly indicates the possibility of an ongoing deliberation on the idea of the home-world as a polar conjunction, which could certainly considered as the book’s foundational base. A “Home” in itself is a very protected space which doesn’t allow any externalities to enter and create barriers or pose as problems. On the contrary the “World” is a vast unbounded area full of temptations, distractions, the good and the evil. This tells the reader about the struggle of Bimala in choosing between her home, that is the purdah, behind which she had been living and had been taught since childhood to live behind it and be contended, and between the outside world that her husband Nikhil forces her to go to. He does so by teaching her English and trying to take her to Calcutta with him as well as encouraging her to come and converse with him and his friends. Moreover, she is also torn between being a faithful wife of Nikhil who is her home, and Sandip her attraction and

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