Tagore’s Handling of Marital Matrix: A Study of The Wreck

In every society, without any exception of caste or culture, life has never been easy for women, but the way life used to take turn for little Bengali girls after marriage was a matter of great surprise and sadness for Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was never comfortable with the inequality of man-woman relationship. He always advocated equality of rights and respect for both the sexes; therefore he made his writings a medium to preach equal liberty for men and women. His phenomenal work of art The Wreck depicts the matrix in married life of Kamala, Nalin and Ramesh and Hem. All the characters of this novel are bound in the clutches of chance and fate but finally emerge as victorious. The novel presents the psychological development of Kamala from a child-bride to a responsible wife and through her character the novelist has highlighted the importance of female education and questions the custom of arrange marriage in the contemporary Bengali society.