Have you ever heard of Frankenstein's monster? You do an experiment thinking of all the glory you will get, but end up getting something you neither want nor control, and the monster also doesn't know how to control himself. Now will you blame the monster 'only'?
There is not an ounce of doubt that Jhanvi and Ashwin were bad parents, and they created the monster called Maya. The fascination Jhanvi had for Ashwin and her desperation to fix a dysfunctional marriage is actually very common in South Asia. Women try to do everything to make their husbands happy at the cost of making everybody else unhappy.
What happened to Maya was nothing compared to the things you must have read in newspapers. There was a girl I know who had been 'visited' every night by her uncle. They lived in a small house and the family was really big. Almost everybody knew about those visits, but every body turned a deaf ear to the situation. People get surprisingly used to of abuses happening inside the confinement of a home, because there are no onlookers to judge and reprimand them. When the girl grew up, she ran away with a guy and married him. Every time I remember her, I pray for her happiness, but the point is if Maya had an ounce of sensibility, she would distance herself with the whole Jhanvi/Ashwin situation. Maya's fixation to keep Jhanvi with her turned her into a monster.
You can always turn your back to the bad things. I know it is difficult, but if you can learn to run a huge business empire than you can also learn which people are not productive for you, but obviously Maya has no control over her emotions whether it is love or fear which is the undoing of her.
Morally speaking, if we choose to do something wrong, it is our own evil, but there are varying degrees of evil. In my opinion, every body should face consequences of being evil according to the level of misery, they bring upon others. Be it Maya or Jhanvi or Ashwin.
Edited by Atonement - 8 years ago
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