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Love in R.K. Narayan’s The English Teacher

Dr. Rupam Kumari

English Teacher
Courtesy: https://www.amazon.in/English-Teacher-R-K-Narayan/dp/8185986037/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+English+Teacher&qid=1600747823&s=books&sr=1-1

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the novel The English Teacher which is written by R.K Narayan. This was his third novel. It was published in 1945. His novels can be classified under four Categories:

1. The school and college novels of earlier period such as Swami and Friends, Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher.
2. Domestic novels such as The Dark Room.
3. Novels dealing with money like The Financial Expert, Mr. Sampath, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi
4. Political novel such as Waiting for the Mahatma

The English Teacher is a song of love. It is a love story. This novel is dedicated to Narayan’s wife Rajam. It is an autobiographical novel. Susila, the wife of Krishna, is similar to Rajam, who like Susila, died of typhoid. Leela, the child of Krishna and Susila is also similar to Hema, the daughter of Narayan’s. Dickens wrote about David Copperfield:

“The pen that wrote David Copperfield was often dipped in my own blood.”

This quotation is true of The English Teacher.

Keywords: R.K. Narayan, The English Teacher, Autobiographical, tragedy, love, typhoid, spiritual, emotional

Introduction

Of all the novels of R.K. Narayan, The English Teacher is the loveliest, finest and most tender tale of love and spiritual romance. It is the love story of Krishna, the English Teacher, and of the sprightly, vivacious Susila, his wife. Both love each other tenderly and extremely. Their love is true and constant, and it does not change. Their love is as divine as that of ROMEO and JULIET. Her love for him is silent like that of Viola in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. She loves him very much. She waits for him anxiously when he reaches home from the college. There is a touching scene which shows her love for him: “I left the college usually at 4.30p.m., the moment the last bell rang, and avoiding all interruptions reached home within about twenty minutes. As soon as I turned street, I caught a glimpse of Susila tinkering at her little garden in our compound, or watching our child as she toddled about picking pebbles and mud…It was not in my wife’s nature to be demonstrative, but I knew she waited there for me’’. (The English Teacher 35)

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Dr. Rupam Kumari
Ph.D., NET in English, Assistant Teacher
G.A Inter School
Vaishali, Bihar, India
rupamkumarihajipur@gmail.com
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