Representation of Women in Rabindranath Tagore’s "Home and the World"

Author(s): Dr. Farzana Nasrin

Publication Date: June 29, 2024

Abstract

In colonial Bengal, women were marginalized by the suppression of patriarchal society’s customs and rules. The women suffered from the conventionalize restrictions of society. Rabindranath Tagore has demonstrated education, equality as well as freedom for women through the novel Home and the World. Tagore is a progressive writer who uses his pen as a weapon of fighting for women’s advancement. He focuses rigidly in his writings on the liberation, freedom, equality, power, justice, rights and dignity of Bimala. Tagore’s Home and the World focused on the nationalism and womanhood of ethical point of view and emancipation. The effects of Swadeshi movement have been represented in Home and the World. This research endeavors to study Bimala’s progressive attitudes and the obstacles of her transformation in the nineteenth century Colonial Bengal society. Tagore focuses on Bimala’s transformation from the “zenana” to the outer world. She is the woman who carries both the traditional and emancipated type. She attempts to revolt against the societal double standards of society.