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Volume 22:1 January 2022
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Purification of the Human Soul: A Critical Study of Sri Aurobindo’s Rodogune

Dr. Tejaswini Behera


Courtesy: www.en.wikipedia.org

Abstract

Sri Aurobindo is one of the popular writers in the field of Indo-Anglian literature. Rodogune, the only tragedy of Sri Aurobindo, fulfills all the important concepts of tragedy and here we see a clear picture of the purification of the human soul. Here, through all his characters, Sri Aurobindo has established that love is the supreme force on this earth and is capable of causing the reawakening of human soul. The historical character of Rodogune describes this love very beautifully and it is perhaps for this reason that Sri Aurobindo chose to name the play after her.

Keywords: Sri Aurobindo, Rodogune, tragedy, purification of human soul

Introduction

Born on 15th August 1872 in a highly educated and westernized father Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghosh in Calcutta, Sri Aurobindo is considered as one of the famous dramatist in the field of Indo- Anglian drama and a towering figure in modern Indian renaissance. Due to his father’s strong belief and attraction towards the western thought and culture, he was sent in the Lorreto Convent school at Darjeeling at the age of five only and then at the age of seven sent to England, where he completed his rest of school education and college study. The central theme of Sri Aurobindo’s Rodogune is the purification of the human soul which was essential for the attainment of the truth-consciousness that is closely attached with the spiritual evolution of the suffering soul. Antiochus, the male protagonist of the play, may face death at the end and accepts the outward defeat but achieves a spiritual victory inwardly and the spirit of Antiochus seems to defeat all the fear and horror of death. He says: “What was Death then but wider life than earth, Can give us in her clayey limits bound?” (p-453)

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Dr. Tejaswini Behera
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Bhuban Women's College
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