‘Rajmohan’s Wife is about transgression’. Would you agree? Discuss this statement in the light of Bankim’s understanding of transgression?

We have tried to see the similarities of themes and motifs in order to be able to reconstruct Bankim’s understanding of desire. Does he indict society and its laws or is he troubled by the destructiveness of the human heart? Are these two statements contradictory? Bankim seems to be consistently trying to resoIve these two positions. He sees the culture specific conditions that facilitate tragedy- but he also sees the human heart as inevitably violating its possibilities of happiness. To that extent one could say he is universalising the nature of tragedy.

And as was said earlier to universalise is to deny history, it is to deny the necessity. of change. What it could imply is that there is no point in reforming laws and improving the position of those who are marginalised such as women and particularly widows. If man is doomed to suffer, then why imagine that things will improve if we reform laws? However, this would be an extremely ahistorical view and in our view, retrogressive in its implications. This would be the opposite of a historical view. The point is that Bankim negotiates the two extremes without completely supporting one or the other. Therein lies the problematic of his fiction.

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