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Volume 17:12 December 2017
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Rabindranath Tagore’s Insight into the Psychology of
Children and Adolescents in His Story World

Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D.


Abstract

This research paper is an attempt to show how short story as the modern genre has captured a permanent place in man’s heart from times immemorial with a focus on Tagore’s story telling skill and literary insight into children’s psychology and adolescents’ mentality and his treatment of women and emotional aspects of human beings reflected and projected effectively in his short stories.

Keywords: Short story, Rabindranath Tagore short stories, emotional aspects, human relationship, children’s psychology, adolescents’ mentality.

Short Story and Tagore

It is generally held that from time immemorial, short stories have captured a permanent place in man’s heart. There is no doubt, Tagore’s insight into children’s psychology, his treatment of women and emotional aspects of human beings in his short stories have won quite a lot of readers for him and these aspects have stayed for ever in the readers’ minds. It is understood out and out by all that Tagore’s stories are stories of human relationships, humanity being represented in the concrete endowed with elemental emotions as also with those which are bred through social ties. Tagore himself said rather evidently as:
“If I do nothing else but write short stories I am happy and I make a few readers happy. The main cause of happiness is that my characters, become my companions, they are with me. When I am shut in my room on a rainy day and on a sunny day, they walk about with me on the bright banks of the Padma” (qtd in Kripalani 159).

The short story is one of the earliest literary forms. Over the last one hundred and fifty years, the short story has come to figure conspicuously in the literature of several countries. Short stories are the most widely read of all modern genres, even from ancient days. Stories were told for the intrinsic value and entertainment.

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor, Head & Chairperson
School of English & Foreign Languages
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai – 625 021
Tamilnadu
India
aschelliah@yahoo.com

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