Devdas In Love Part II

By Super

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 17:43

This is shown when he rejects Paro's love, realizes his mistake and rushes back to her. Meanwhile Paro's self respect is shattered due to rejection and she refuses him. Devdas hits her on the forehead with a stick to cause a mark on her beautifully perfect face, to remind her of him even when he cannot claim her. This was merely a subconscious attempt of the character to aggressively acquire the love meant to be his, while she is married off to somebody else. Thus, he sets off in his spiral downward trip to self destruction. A punishment imposed by himself. This is reminiscent of the fact that he found solace in the concept of punishment, which is traced back to his father hitting him with a stick as a child.

Devdas felt he had done justice to the society and himself by practicing self-control over his desires for Paro. This is in fact his incapability to self-determination due to confusion of the childhood dilemmas combined with his belief that bigger glory lies in resisting the prize rather than accepting it. A thought 'cultured' from the 'psychology of colonialism'.

Devdas repeats his 'resistance' the second time with Chandramukhi, a popular prostitute who falls in love with the man, only because he does not desire anything from her. He continues to compare the two women in his lives and despises Chandarmukhi's affection and devotion, in spite of her giving up of her profession to win him and trying to nurse his ill health.

The melodrama ends with Devdas at Paro's doorstep, as death knocks his doors. Paro, now a respectable lady in the society is not allowed to meet her only love, as once again she tries to break the social norms by running carelessly beyond the mansions boundaries. Devdas had returned to Paro to keep his last promise. Earlier, the two had met again after her marriage when he promises to see her once before dying. Paro had visited the wasted Devdas and again offered her love. To this the latter had asked her to run away with him, a challenge to Paro's 'social limits' for his own 'psychological limits'.

Devdas could be a feeble man or a confused one, who eventually looses all that he has in an imaginary attempt to win a self created master of control. This is due to the ghosts of oppressions by his father, the borrowed concepts from his western education and his fight against his 'rural roots'. However, women of the story are more masculine in their self-less declaration of love and fearlessness in its open declaration.

Devdas is a story of a man trying to love himself, with a backdrop of the love extended to him from his mother, his lover and a prostitute. However, its always wonderful to just fall in love and its simplicity. Happy Valentine's day.