Critical analysis of Fakeer of Jungheera

Name: Zarna BhattiSem:1 M.A

Paper no:4 Indian Writing in EnglishTopic:Critical analysis of Fakeer of

JungheeraRoll no: o5

Year: 2015/2017Enrollment no: PG15101005

Email-id: zarnabhatti10@gmail.comSubmitted To: S.B.Gardi Department of

EnglishM.K.Bhavanagar University

“The Fakeer of Jungheera” is a long poem by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. He was born on 1809 in Calcutta. He was a lecturer and poet. He was an Indian poet and assistant head principal at the Hindu College of Calcutta. He was radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate western education and science among the young men of Bengal.

Introduction of Writer

“Self immolation by a widow would normally be looked upon as a negative aspect of culture.”The term “Sati” is a Sanskrit word meaning “Virtuous woman.”However , it is often used to refer to women who are faithful wives, who self immolate themselves on the funeral pyre of her husband.

What is meaning of "Satipratha"?

Victimization word comes from “Victim”.A victim is a person who suffers directly or threatened physical, emotional or financial harm as a result of an act by some one else, which is a crime.Subject of to cheat someone.

Victimization

Widow of her husband.Victim of “satipratha”Victim by society.Mentally dead.Death of her “Beauty” and “Charm”.Death of her love.Becomes seconds widow of her lover Fakeer. Video:lajja

Naleeni as a Victim of "satipratha"

Child marriageSatiprathaDowry systemVideo:lajja

Indian negative aspect of our culture

“The sun it stream in dimples breaks,As when a child from slumber wakes,Sweet smiling on its mother there,Like heavenly hope o’er mortal care!”

In this second stanza says that the sad theme is established where a woman has to become sati.

Raja ram Mohan Roy and William Bantic was stopped the situation in 1828.