Punishment , Tagore – Patricia Alvarado

I would compare Chandara and Hedda and how similar they really are. Chandara takes the fall for her husband because we see time and again after her husband blames his brothers death on her she chooses to go through with the consequences because she cannot bear to stay in her marriage. In Hedda’s predicament she does not enjoy her marriage with George  Tesman and is in a one sided relationship due to the reasoning that George is enamored with her , yet she is more preoccupied with the current whereabouts of her past lover Eilert Lovborg. Both Chandara and Hedda hold this same reasoning that death is better than staying in there current marriages forever and going through the sadness that it is to come to terms with  your own mortality  yet in this sense for both characters mortality is better than having the go through their current relationships with their husbands. As well as enduring more years of an unloving marriage and the falseness in the  emotions that they’re spouses hold towards them that we see throughout the story starts to falter . In Chandara’s case, her husbands feeling towards her start to falter the minute he chooses her over his brother to take the fall for her his sister in law’ death just shows how frail their marriage really was. Then in Hedda’s situation , in my understanding her marriage was more for coveniance and just because she was getting towards the marriage age at that time. She never had a successful marriage from the beginning because there weren’t any real feelings of both parties wanting to be in the marriage similarly to Chandara. Both marriages were based off of false feelings and convenience.