In “Punishment” Rabindranath Tagore narrates a story about how a women has to deal with struggles to patriarchy. Chandara is being used and tortured with by her husband and the husband’s brother Dukhirum Rai. The husband told Chandara that he will save him after she tells him about her murder. Chandara is getting blamed for killing the older brother’s wife and the older brother doesn’t want his younger brother to be in jail and have a crime. He blames his wife on the murder of the older brothers wife . The article is related to Du Tenth Sinks The Jewel Box In Anger. Du Tenth and Chandara as ignored by their partner, and they chose death to show their disappointment of being together with each other. The authors are trying to show that the feeling of sorrow because women’s can’t escape from the control of men’s. Women are being used for as objects and being used for to get the work done. In both of the articles it’s showing that that people died and there are similarities between the two stories.
Simran, I agree with you that there are strong lines of connection between “Punishment” and “Du Tenth.” I think you put it well when you refer to the sorrow the female characters feel when they discover that they can’t escape from men’s efforts to control them. Even in a case like Chandara’s, where the husband says he is trying to “save her life,” he is still operating on the assumption that his wife should do as he says.