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Choritrohin
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Choritrohin is a novel by Bengali novelist Sarat
Chandra Chattopadhyay.
[edit]Plot summary
The novel is set in Bengali society of the early
1900s. The story has four main women characters
two major, Savitri and Kiranmayi, and two minor,
Surbala and Sarojini. The former two are accused of
being charitraheen (characterless). It is most
interesting that all four characters are totally
different.
Savitri is born a Brahmin, but poverty has forced her
to become a servant, doing tasks appropriate only
for a 'lower caste'. She is, and remains, pure of
character, and devoted to the man she loves
Satish.
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Surbala is Upendranath's wife. She is young, pure in
character and pious to the point of blind faith in
religious texts.
Sarojini is educated in the Western style, and is
forward-thinking, but hampered by familial
circumstances and a forceful mother. She marries
Satish in the end.
Finally, Kiranmayi is the most striking character of
the novel. Young and extremely beautiful, she is
also very intelligent and argumentative. Her
emotions and desires have, however, always been
repressed by a husband more intent on teaching
her than on conjugal matters, and by a nagging
mother-in-law. She surprises and impresses all the
three main men in the novelSatish, Upendra and
Diwakarbut her life is ultimately reduced to
shambles by these unthinking men.
The three men play very important roles in the lives
of the four women, but most of the time, their
actions are detrimental to the women. They are
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orthodox, unthinking, and not in control of their
emotions. Satish brings about Savitri's downfall and
acts strangely with Sarojini till the end, when hebrings about a final reunion of sorts on Upendra's
deathbed. Upendra helps Kiranmayi initially, but
thinks the worst of her relationship with Diwakar,
and actually causes Kiranmayi's compulsive
elopement with Diwakar. Diwakar is weak-kneedand immature. An orphan, he is delighted by
Kiranmayi treating him as her brother, and
eventually shirks education. He acts totally
irresponsibly after his elopement with Kiranmayi.
There is a redemption of all the women in the end,
Savitri being considered a devi, Kiranmayi's
compulsions understood somewhat and her ill-
treatment regretted implicitly, Sarojini getting to
marry Satish, and Surbala dying a natural death. But
one feels that this redemption has come too late.
Wrong done to the women cannot be righted just
like that, even if the women themselves feel so.
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The depiction of orthodox Hindu society in conflict
with Western thoughts brought in by British rule is
good.
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