Character Analysis Of Premala's Personification Of Love

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Premala carries out the ceremonial proceedings with great serenity and moderation. Kit is a victim of divided loyalties. Though he has modern views, the fact that Premala is traditional, pleases him. He expects Premala to be modern and westernized. He treats her as a typical Indian husband would treat his wife. He feels mortified when Premala fails in her social obligation. Premals tries to remould herself to please Kit’s anglicized tastes. Premala comes from a conservative family, while Kit with his education in England, his anglicized household and his civil service status is thoroughly British in outlook and way of living. She is fond of Veena playing and reading the Gita. She is domestic bound, modest with her paintings of miniatures and …show more content…

She stands for the traditional concept of the Indian woman. In the bondage marriage, she and her husband Kit are mismatched. As a result cultural differences bring them apart. Despite this difference, it is Premala who tries to bridge the gap, but it ends in vain. Her and Kit’s marriage indicates marriage without love. The absence of Kit’s love breeds frustration in Premala. Kit starves her soul hungry for love. Having none of her own, she adopts a child and shares with the village people the want of her love. The child that pleases Premala irritates Kit because of the danger of it being taken as bastard. It is this unsatisfactory marriage which is responsible for Premala’s social service since broken heated women are driven to become good reformers. Fielder’s statement on Zenobia in Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance that -“only a broken heart makes woman reformers rather than passive lovers, that feminism is the result of ill-regulated or ill-bestowed passion” (p.216) applies as well to Premala. If Kit had really loved and accepted her as she was, without forcing her personality into inhospitable moulds, the problem of her becoming a reformer would not have arisen. Kit’s love for Premala awakens when her life is under danger. On learning of the danger to Premala’s life, Kit hurries to the school only to have the satisfaction of holding her dead body. Her failure to find a meaning in life drives her to

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