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The Postmaster
To a great extent, the postmaster plays a formative role in Ratan's life. He helps to give her purpose and meaning. The opening of the story is one in which Ratan wanders around Ulapur, not...
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The Postmaster
The relationship between the postmaster and Ratan is an emotionally imbalanced one. The postmaster’s needs are met in his relationship with Ratan. He finds a companion even though he is isolated...
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The Postmaster
In Tagore's short story, the postmaster is very concerned with his own welfare. The postmaster has been relocated from Calcutta to the small village of Ulapur. From the start of the narrative, he...
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The Postmaster
In the story, the postmaster does not take Ratan with him when he returns to Calcutta. Ratan, who has become attached to him, is devastated by his seemingly callous rejection. There may be a number...
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The Postmaster
One theme of the story that directly connects to Ratan and the Postmaster would be the ability to dream of what can be from what is. This ability to transform reality into something conditional is...
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The Postmaster
“The grief-stricken face” of Ratan began to haunt the postmaster when he left for his home. The boat had already left the shore when he felt a powerful impulse to take Ratan along with him. But by...
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The Postmaster
Tagore's inclusion of the postmaster's sharing of information with Ratan brings out an important emotional dynamic of each character. On one hand, the postmaster speaks of his family to Ratan to...
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The Postmaster
In Rabindranath Tagore's story "The Postmaster," Ratan takes care of the little town's postmaster. Ratan, an orphan girl of the village...did odd jobs for him. Ratan is very upset to hear that...
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The Postmaster
A story does not have to have a moral. A short story, according to Edgar Allan Poe, the father of the modern short story, a story has to produce a "single effect." Tagore's story "The Postmaster"...
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The Postmaster
An urbane, sophisticated, and civilized man, the postmaster is completely out of his depth in the remote backwater of Ulapur. This is a place where people have no leisure and therefore no time to...
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The Postmaster
The postmaster feels out of place due to the fact that he must interface on a daily basis with strangers. Essentially, the postmaster finds it difficult to relate to the villagers, who possibly...
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The Postmaster
In the story, Ratan is loyal, diligent, trusting, and compassionate. As the postmaster's helper, she is often at her employer's beck and call. Yet, Ratan never complains; she never hesitates to put...
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The Postmaster
The original question had to be edited. I would suggest that the fundamental issue that both works raise about Indian society is the presence of marginalized voices within it. For Pande, this...
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The Postmaster
The postmaster feels like he doesn't belong in the small village of Ulapur. He contrasts this remote rural backwater with the thrusting metropolis of Calcutta, which is where he'd much rather be....
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The Postmaster
The postmaster's family became a part of Ratan's life as a way to become closer to him as well as to experience family life. As the postmaster stays on in Ulapur, his need for companionship...
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The Postmaster
The postmaster is a refined, urbane, civilized man. He's also a trifle snobbish, looking down on the villagers of Ulapur for their relative lack of sophistication and learning. As such, he makes no...
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The Postmaster
To be able to understand this sentence, it's useful to consider a summary of "The Postmaster" by Rabindranath Tagore. This short story tells of a young man from Calcutta who arrives in the remote...
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The Postmaster
I think that it is part of Tagore's genius to make the complexity in the relationship between Ratan and the postmaster so much a part of the text. Both of them bring complex baggage into the...
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The Postmaster
The last sentences of the story bring out how Ratan’s desire to wait for the postmaster is motivated by the uniquely human condition of embracing “the snares of delusion” that exist within the...
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The Postmaster
This excellent short story reflects the true poverty faced by so many in rural India in the form of the backwater where the postmaster, himself a young man coming from Calcutta, has his first job....
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The Postmaster
Nature occupies a central role at the start and at the end of the story. At the outset of the story, nature is described in a condition as posing challenges to the postmaster. In order to convey...
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The Postmaster
In the story, Ratan felt abandoned by her employer. His nonchalant rejection of her, based on his decision to return to Calcutta alone, essentially crushed her spirits. Ratan had always been a...
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The Postmaster
One way in which the story reflects on Indian society is in the idea of someone being on its periphery. Despite the leaps in technology and in telecommunications that has transformed India over...
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The Postmaster
These words are used to describe Ratan, the girl who came to help out around the home and office of the Postmaster. Ratan is an orphan, but one who is old enough to remember her parents and her...
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The Postmaster
Tagore writes "The Postmaster" in the early part of his writing career. The story is first published in May 1891. In 1890, Tagore had been immersed in the process of writing a great many works on...
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The Postmaster
This is a great question! My own belief is that the postmaster does not have adequate coping skills. The postmaster lacks effective coping skills in a couple of ways. The first is how he is...
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The Postmaster
In “The Postmaster,” Tagore shows how loneliness can be temporary for some people and permanent for others. The postmaster struggles mightily with loneliness. He cannot find social connection with...
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The Postmaster
The setting of Ulapur is important for a couple of reasons. The first reason that the village is important is because it represents the desire of the postmaster to leave. The story becomes and...
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The Postmaster
In the short story "The Postmaster" by Rabindranath Tagore, a man from Calcutta comes to take up the position of postmaster in the small village of Ulapur. He is bored and lonely. His only...
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The Postmaster
The postmaster sees Calcutta as more desirable than Ulapur. The opening description of Calcutta reveals how the postmaster feels out of place in Ulapur. The postmaster "felt like a fish out of...
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The Postmaster
The postmaster feels out of place in the remote village's primitive environment, and he feels decidedly uncomfortable in his interactions with the locals. In the story, we are told that the...
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The Postmaster
Ratan is a simple, spontaneous, and innocent girl in Tagore's short story The Postmaster. A teenage orphan, she lives in the village of Ulapur, in Bengal. She does the household chores and keeps...
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The Postmaster
The story of "The Postmaster" by Rabindranath Tagore is a sad story about a man who takes up his duties as postmaster in a small village named Ulapur in India. The village is far away from...
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The Postmaster
The postmaster is bored out of his mind in this provincial Indian town. There's no culture to speak of, and no one of sufficient erudition to talk to. With vast amounts of spare time on this hands...
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The Postmaster
During the period of heavy rains, the village roads become impassable and trading has to be conducted in boats. Clearly, the village of Ulapur is a remote rural village lacking most of the...
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The Postmaster
Tagore wrote a very interesting and thought-provoking story. He incorporated several socially relevant themes, but he put his main focus on loneliness, guilt, human nature, and people's...
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The Postmaster
As the postmaster's boat sails to take him back home to Calcutta and away from the village of Ulapur, he feels "a pain at heart" when he thinks of the orphan girl, Ratan, who he is leaving behind....
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The Postmaster
The essence of a narration of Tagore's short story starts from the general, focuses on the specific, and then goes back to the general with the specifics falling within such a configuration. The...
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The Postmaster
The postmaster doesn't have a daughter, but he does develop a close bond with an orphan girl called Ratan who does odd jobs for him. They eat together and chat in the evenings. The postmaster even...
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The Postmaster
These words are spoken by the postmaster in answer to Ratan's question about possibly accompanying her employer back to Calcutta. In the text, we learn that the postmaster's answer haunts Ratan...
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The Postmaster
I think that the title of the short story is appropriate. It is through the postmaster's eyes that the reader first experiences Ulapur. The ending is one where we see reality through his eyes....
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The Postmaster
The famous Indian film director Satyajit Ray made a beautiful film titled Two Daughters in 1961 based on two stories by Rabindranath Tagore. The film is available on DVD and probably on videotape....
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The Postmaster
The village post office in the remote backwater of Ulapur was established by an Englishman, the proprietor of a nearby indigo factory. The suggestion here is that Ulapur, like many small towns and...
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The Postmaster
The ending of Tagore's short story brings out the theme of how universal pain and suffering is in the modern setting. The ending, in particular the last two paragraphs, takes an almost global...
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The Postmaster
I think that the ending of the short story is where Tagore's philosophy is the most evident. Tagore's philosophy is one in which he refuses to acquiesce to a transcendent notion of reality when he...
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The Postmaster
The point where the climax is evident exists when the postmaster receives his transfer back to Calcutta and when Ratan asks to accompany him. It is also at this point where the strong contrast...
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The Postmaster
Both works address the basic idea of women's treatment in Indian society. Pande's work focuses on how girls see themselves as women and how this discriminatory view is brought on by the social...
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The Postmaster
I would say that the influence of society was pressing on the postmaster. From the moment he landed in Ulapur, the postmaster seemed more inclined to wanting to leave it, returning the Calcutta...
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The Postmaster
I think that the most immediate alternate ending for the story would be if the Postmaster and Ratan left together. This would help to bring about a redemptive ending in that he recognized how...
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The Postmaster
To answer this question, we will have to understand Tagore's perspective on his beloved India. To him, India had long been mired in superstitious traditions, and he argued for a more open approach...