Nagaina In Rikki Tavi, By Rudyard Kipling

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Nagaina is one of the main antagonists in the story “Rikki Tikki Tavi” written by Rudyard Kipling. She is a vicious cobra. She is married to Nag, who is also a vicious cobra. They both want to be rulers of the garden. She wants to kill everything in sight, especially because she was babies on the way. She is stealthy, murderous, and protective.

First, Nagaina shows great stealth when she tries to kill Rikki at the beginning of the short story, “...just under him whizzed by the head of Nagaina, Nag’s wicked wife” (19). Darzee, the foolish bird, warned Rikki Tikki just in time to jump. If he hadn’t, Nagaina probably would’ve had success with her stealthy plan. Rikki could’ve bitten her back but, “He came down almost across her back, and if he had been an old mongoose, he would have known that then was the time to break her back with one bite; but he was afraid of the terrible lashing return stroke of the cobra...” (19). After that, Nagaina and Nag slither off steaming knowing that they could have gotten rid of Rikki Tikki if it weren’t for the crazed bird. …show more content…

“Nagaina saw she had saw her chance of killing Teddy, and her leg lay between Rikki Tikki’s paws…” (25). She wants to kill Teddy and his family so that she can be the queen of the garden with her little cobras. Even more, she wants to avenge her husband, Nag, because she thinks that Teddy’s father killed him with the gun. She also wants to kill Rikki, “Nagaina gathered herself and flung out at him” (25). And the reason for this murderous state is she wants to be the queen of the

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