As for your spot on comments, I agree with you completely, bar only the part in bold. I do not feel that even for a soap box orator like Jodha, losing the chance of unleash more bhashans on Jalal would be the cause for such desperate misery!đ
Shyamala
Originally posted by: adiana12
Hi Shyamala, gr8 analysis. Waise what I'm surprised is with Jodha's thinking - Was she never told that marriage entails physical intimacy as well - and that in the 16th century a wife was duty bound to sleep with her husband and could not deny him ?????? What did she think that just becoz Jalal had a large harem, she would not grace his bed even one time ???? I'm really amazed at her stupidity which is being cloaked in naivety.
In fact from her conversation with Ruqs, she does know that she has her conjugal duties as well and hence she was garnering support from Ruqs. And this was becoz she secretly wanted Jalal wanting her so that she could take the moral high ground and keep spurning him, calling him a Jallad who resorted to Bal to satisfy himself. And when he promised her that he wont touch her - its this aspect that he snatched away from her - the chance of being a victim and taking the morality route - which to my mind is the cause of her being bereft - she has lost the chance of bhashaaning him you see đđ
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