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"For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first."
There has been many things said about Paro deserving what she ought to deserve because she never trusted Rudra...so she deserves Rudra's and everybody's else's wrath. My view on this is as it has always been...it's an individual's choice to make a decision and that always comes with the fact that the same individual face the consequences of the choice too.
What has Paro seen of Rudra and the BSD? Terror and death...her parents were killed...she was widowed within a few hours after her marriage...she was arrested and abused in custody...she was roped like an animal and treated worst than that...she was abandoned by her village and by her aunt...she was threatened...coerced...even inappropriately touched.
Yet...it is believed that Rudra is the one who is betrayed. How can Rudra feel betrayal when he never trusted her in the first place...a person feels the thorns of betrayal when they are emotionally attached or there is a level of trust. Here Rudra always believed that she was a criminal...supporting Tejawat. He never trusted her even till the last moment...all he wanted was her to sign the papers, knowing very well that he never provided her with any evidence against her adopted parent. He was ready to forcibly marry her knowing very well that she was against it.
Paro, not once but numerous times made it very clear that she would never go against her village or her adopted father...but yet it is felt that she is the one who betrayed Rudra. She did not betray Rudra because she never promised him anything...she was honest and very clear with him from the very beginning. She was clear as crystal till the very last minute that she would rather kill herself before being forcibly married to him. She never had any second thoughts about it and that is why she knocked him down unconscious...because she wanted freedom...She saw rudra aiming at her adopted father...what does a child do in that moment? Choose the captor or save the man who was her adopted father? She did what a person does when she sees the first rays of hope and freedom...here she asked her lord to give her a sign...she believed that it was Tejawat and she chose him.
Yes, it was a wrong decision from her part because she doesn't know the truth and so she has to face the consequences too. But she needs to understand that and fight for herself which will undoubtedly make her into a stronger woman.
But she has definitely not betrayed Rudra because she never promised him anything and above all...to feel betrayed one has to trust the other person...and, Rudra never trusted Paro. Till the very last moment he wanted her to sign the papers.
