Ambivalence in Rejection of Patriarchy

While, Nehru saw that foreign domination should be banished with any ways, and this is known as destructive Swadeshi. Nehru, in his Autobiography, has come out with some of the best lines ever written on rootlessness. They are: I am a stranger and an alien in the West. I cannot be of it. But in my own country also, sometimes, I have an exiles feelings. Nevertheless, the all-absorbing work of fight- ing for Indias freedom and of governing it as its first Prime Minister gave him a sense of purpose and belonging to an ideal. It also kept him inordinately busy either to let him dwell publicly on that emotion or to dramatise it in his writings 1961: 136. In relation to history, Tagore’s The Home and the World was written during the process to get freedom from the British in Swadeshi Movement. According to the novel’s setting, the process of reaching the independence has not finished yet. Therefore, Tagore precisely drew his attention to the conflict happening and the searching of identity which causes ambivalence character of the colonised people through the traditional idea versus modernity idea.

D. Theoretical Framework

The writer in analysing the discussion of this thesis uses several theories to support the argument needed to answer the problem formulation based on the object of the study. The theory on Character and Characterization by M.J. Murphy is used to analyse the woman main character discussed in the first part of the analysis. The purpose of the first analysis is to understand how Bimala, as the woman main character, is represented in the novel in relation to the colonisation by the British Empire. Secondly, for further analysis, the theory on Ambivalence is applied after the first findings by seeing the contradiction appearing on the character examined. In this part, the writer uses the postcolonial-feminism approach to see that such ambivalence in the women character is created in purpose. Since the character is described as a revolutionary woman towards the imperial power and patriarchal system, and actively participated in the nationalist movement, but in contrary she is a ‘home-made’ character whose life dealt with household for years, the theory of ambivalence helps the writer to understand the co-relation between the colonialism and the mind-set of colonised people. Finally, at the end of the analysis, this writing will answer the problem formulations. Then, the writer will jump into a conclusion that there are ambivalence character in Bimala as the main character in the novel.