Indian Culture Portrayed in Amrita Pritam's A Stench of Kerosene
'A Stench Of Kerosene' is the damning and poignant indictment of an
archetypal marriage that commonly thrived in Indian villages, and
alas, still exist in the civilized world of today.
Manak and Guleri, the spouses' joint by marriage resided together in
the formers native village, where he was born and cultivated. Though
as soon as the marriage commenced, Manak's intrusive mother caused
problems in their hapless relationship. The story illustrates how a
marriage based on love that should have flourished into an attractive
venture turned out to be the complete opposite due to the parents'
'backward' ideals which gradually took effect upon the doomed pair.
Pritam's (the author) 'A Stench of Kerosene' palpably unearths the
reality of life in the rustic villages of India, and more
significantly the callous reality faced by married females, who live a
life of tyranny, discontent, and conformity to their male
'equivalents' in addition to their family folklores. One underlying
theme of the story is the representation of Indian people's bigotry
towards the female gender, causing the reader to truly empathize with
the evident quandaries for wedded women who not only tolerate this
prejudice in the East, but women experiencing this identical
predicament around similar parts of the world.
The tale unfolds with Guleri rushing out of the house to embrace a
farm animal that she recognizes arriving from her home village;
"She put her head against its neck as if it were the door to her
father's house".
The fact that Guleri "ran out to the mare", gives an insight into
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...fe, Manak once again opts to remain unspoken; conversely,
the silence he now bears is the result of sorrow for his wife's
demise.
Towards the end of the story, all of Manak's pent up emotions had
finally escaped through a fit of rage;
"take him away!…Take him away! He stinks of kerosene!".
The baby who he wishes to be taken away serves to be a horrid memento
of Guleri's 'needless' death.
Pritam's pessimistic perception of Indian culture also lacks
enthusiasm. She strives to convey her belief in that India ought to
make more of an attempt to dispose of the archaic beliefs that 'women
are inferior to men'. Nevertheless, I must also add that in some parts
of "A Stench Of Kerosene", it emerges that she dramatises the extent
of Indian females being oppressed, and also the authority of the
husband's mother.
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