vedanth's character analysis
There is nothing in vedanth's character or conduct which invites us to see any black humour in the . Instead there is an astonishingly penetrating development of vedanth's character. The focus here is directly upon what he is thinking and feeling, why he acts the way he does, and what consequences his own evil brings about upon himself.
At the start he is a very successful and highly esteemed person, loaded with honours and enjoying every prospect of further commendation.
Now he alone is the architect of his own destruction, and the more he tries to cope with what he senses is closing in on him, the more he aggravates his deteriorating condition ,and that is to say his problem is that he is too ambitious. Ambition is a sin.For a fascinating aspect of vedanth's motivation is that he is in the grip of something which he does not fully understand (gargi)and which a part of him certainly does not approve of.
His imagination is in the grip of a powerful tension between his desire to see himself take revenge and his sense of the immorality of the act and of the immediate consequences, which he knows will be disastrous. Part of the great fascination we have with vedanth's character is that he has a very finely honed moral sense and never seeks to evade the key issues . He is no hypocrite in this respect. He knows he will have to violate what he believes.
gargi has she has no countervailing social conscience,In fact, she expressly repudiates the most fundamental social aspect of her being, her role as a woman, wife, and mother ,part of her tactics with vedanth is to urge him to be more of a man.
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