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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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