A Coward
Premchand
In the story a coward Premchand shows
how cultural difference with in a conflict creates problem among the people who
live in the same society. Basically the Hindu cast system has created problems
among the people in case of marriage. Moreover, the gap between a traditional
mind and the modern mind device the people clearly in to opposite pose most of
the people still stick to their conservative beliefs due to which the gap has
always remained unfulfilled in the story, keshav a Brahmin boy falls in love
with prema a girl from banya caste. In the beginning keshav seems to he very
strong because he is read to undergo any hardships that might come on his way.
He convinced prema to be bold and fight against the conservative mind. Prema,
who is loyal to her parents, doesn’t close to against them. However she doesn’t
share to live her life without keshav as preama goes home. She thinks about
keshav and collects her strangth to tell her relationship with keshav to her
parents. In the beginning her parents rejects it strongly but they aggred when
the put her life at stake. Prema’s father went to talk with keshav’s father, who reacted very rudely to him.
However he tolerated being the father of
a girl. Then prema wrote a letter to keshav informing him that she was
ready to undergo to any shorts of difficulties if he was readey to accept her as his life partner. She
also wrote that her parents were eager to meet him and he was called for dinner.
Prema waits for keshav impatiently but nature he nor his letter comes only the
next morning prema gets the letter of keshav in which she finds him
unaspectedly coward and distuyal. Her parents ask her about his response but
she tells them nothing she hide her pain the whole day and the next morning she
commit beucide.
In
this way this story shows the cultural problems of the same society due to the
conservative feelings of the people. The lover like prema and keshav are very
much frequient in our society too and they are killing themselves due to the
fear of social parts which are almost impossible for them to cross.