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Currently reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and one can draw so many similarities between our Rudra Bana and the protagonist named Okonkwo in Achebe's story. He is a fierce warrior and an honorable lord of his village yet he has this strangeness about him. Something that says he lives in constant fear. He is not the most kind of people when it comes to treating others. Doesn't that sound so much like Rudra?! And he too shared a very strained relation with his father.
Now read this passage from the story:
"Qkonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children. Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father. Even as a little boy he had resented his father's failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala. That was how Okonkwo first came to know that agbala was not only another name for a woman, it could also mean a man who had taken no title. And so Okonkwo was ruled by one passion - to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness."
Won't you consider that a perfect analysis of Rudra's character?! At least I told myself this is sooo Rudra-like and hence logged in to share it with you guys!
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