Comment on R.K. Narayan’s presentation of the Indian life in its varied
aspects through different characters. /
Show how the Indian family system is represented in The English Teacher.
C. D. Narasimhaiah categorically asserts that few Indian writers writing
in English “have been more truly Indian.” True to this spirit, R.K. Narayan, a
typical Indian in his thoughts and feelings, in his scenes and background, has
portrayed in all his novels “the traditional Indian life”. The setting of
almost all his novels lies in the background of a typical Indian land, called
Malgudi, and The English Teacher is
no exception. In The English Teacher,
we really meet a kind of India which is termed by K. Chellapan as “… a mini
India”. In fact, the novel abounds in fifty one characters who have the notions
and feelings, taboos and morals of India with them.
Krishna, a kind of
sensitive as well as introspective man, is the protagonist of the novel. His
character is typically Indian not only in name but also in spirit. Despite
being an English teacher of Albert Mission College, he finds no satisfaction in
his professional life because he has to teach the same things in the classroom.
Rather, he is a passionate lover of Nature and is devoted to writing poetry.
Like a typical Indian husband and father, Krishna loves his wife Susila and his
only child, Leela. When his wife suffers from typhoid, he becomes wildly
anxious for her. In fact, after the death of his wife he feels lonely, desolate
and deserted. Ultimately, being inspired by the headmaster’s alternative view
of education, Krishna leaves his job at College and joins a primary school and
he is able to find a new meaning of life. Moreover, he becomes engaged into a
spiritual communication with his dead wife Susila, which seems absurd to the
western readers but truly cops with the traditional Indian faiths and beliefs
regarding spiritual mediation. In a word, he represents the India of antiquity..........................
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