Comment on the English Teacher’s dissatisfaction with his profession. Or, Account for the transformation that take place in the English Teacher’s life. Or Critically analyse the character of Krishna. Show whether his character develops during the scope of the novel.

Comment on the English Teacher’s dissatisfaction with his profession.

Or,

Account for the transformation that take place in the English Teacher’s life.

Or

Critically analyse the character of Krishna. Show whether his character develops during the scope of the novel.

R. K. Narayan’s The English Teacher, though primarily a touching story of love and spiritual romance of his hero Krishna, the English teacher of Albert Mission College, also traces Krishna’s ‘experiment with truth’, which he achieves through a process of evolution of his inner self. On social plane, his journey from the career of a collage teacher to a kindergarten assistant is nothing but a backward motion, but it includes an integrated to his moral values.

          The novel opens with an account of Krishna’s dissatisfaction with his professional life. This dissatisfaction arises mainly from his routine life of teaching the same things in the college. Moreover, he realizes that he is teaching not because that he loves his subjects or his student, but that his student may ‘secure high marks’ in the examination and he may be saved from ‘adverse remarks’ from his chief at the end of the year. For all these pains what he is paid by the college is not also enough for running a smooth life. As a result what he feels is this:

 “The feeling again and again came upon me that as I was nearing thirty I should cease to live like a cow…, eating, working in a manner of speaking, walking, talking, etc. all dare to perfection, I was sure, but always living behinds sense of something missing”.

          Krishna calls at these as “self-criticism”, which arises its climax when his chief Mr. Brown admonishes him for having come across a student of English Honours who did not know till this day that ‘honours’ had to be spelt with a ‘u’. Krishna is unable to understand the queer nature of Mr. Brown who is pandering over just a simple spelling mistake. According to him, if Mr. Brown who has been living in India for the last thirty years cannot speak even one of the two hundred Indian languages, then why is the responsible only on the Indians to know English by preserving purity. He asks about Brown, “Why does he magnify his own importance?” This magnification obviously comes from his colonizing stand point, and Krishna can’t cope with this...........

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