The “Punishment” tells a unique perspective on how to get away with murder. Especially, blaming a person who has nothing to do with it, Here, in this story you see “chotoboau” Chandara have to take the blame for the murder that was committed by her brother-in -law. She has no rights, no privilege, even the “Bhraman” enacted the idea to Chidam to blame his wife for the evil deed his brother did. The role of women is to serve her man without any question nor any obligations. Women are basically an object of conceiving children , pleasure, and food. Thus, you can see the view of Tagore’s era of womanism. So the idea that a woman who has one person to look up to and he eventually failed to save her it’s just really mundane. Even when Chidam says to the Brahman “Thakur, if I lose my wife I can get another, but if my brother is hanged, how can I replace him?” (Tagore 895). Signifying that women can come and go, especially with a complicated caste system back in the days in India women had no choice but to be dead, because if her husband died she would be burnt alive with him, Outrageously savage!

Sad thing about this story is that even though her husband said to Chandara that she will be saved because he made up a story to tell the judge to protect her, that didn’t go according to plan, she really wanted to be killed and hanged, even  telling her husband she loves him covering her face (because of her hate towards him). Even though they were bound together by marriage. In order for this support this theory when her husband said to tell the truth, Chandara ” stared at him stunned/black eyes burnt in fire/ as if to escape devilish clutches” (Tagore 896). Thus signifying more that she really wanted to die because for a person she was to be trusted for life, he betrayed her. Also, back in the days, divorce is not an option in Tagore’s era, women are married and are tied with that person until death.  It is  sacrilege for a woman to be seen with another man or not obeying his rules or since Chandara always uses to visit the “Ghaut” and talk to the other men than her husband, which cause her to be locked up in the room and some form of violence by her husband. In which the whole crisis began with this married couple.

Thus, Tagore gives us and really good insight view of the culture and realism on womanhood during his era where women had very little human rights, men had all the domination. A caste system where you are judged based on the hierarchy, where the elder commanded and the duties are fulfilled with no obligation by the younger one with no obligations. In addition, women were treated as animals,  but not as human beings. It is sad for a little girl to be growing in a culture with so many repercussions for women. It is somewhat similar to Menglongs “Du Tenth” and the poems from Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz on portraying of womanism .