What is the theme of the story subha

Identify theme and underlying meaning in world fiction. Determine the point of view and reflect on its effect on the story and theme. Look for irony and consider its impact on the story and theme Theme-an abstract idea expressed in a work of art, literature, or music. Author’s world view, Universal application, Indirect presentation: Reader must examine story elements to arrive at the theme Considerations Characters’ behavior, growth, and motivations Values illustrated Author’s tone and style: Use of irony Effect on reader. When the girl was given the name of Subhashini, who could have guessed that she would be special? Her two elder sisters were Suhashini, and for the sake of uniformity, her father had named his youngest girl Subhashini. She was called Shuba for short.

From “Subha” by Rabindranath Tagore Night and day her parents’ minds ached with anxiety on her account. Especially her mother looked upon her as a deformity. ...Banikantha, Subha’s father, loved her rather better than he did his other daughters; her mother regarded her with aversion as a stain upon her own body. From “Subha” by Rabindranath Tagore Style Language Word choice Figures of speech Rhetorical devices Structure The planned Framework for a work: Poem, short story, novel, play, essay The construction of a work: Sentence length, structure, and complexity Paragraph structure...Nature was the Special girl’s language; that speech of the dark eyes, which the long lashes shaded, was the language of the world about her. From the trees, where the cicalas chirped, to quiet stars, there was nothing but signs and gestures, weeping and sighing. And in the deep mid-moon, when the boatmen and fisher-folk had gone to their dinner, when the villagers slept and the birds were still, when the ferry-boats were idle, when the great busy world paused in its toil and became suddenly a lonely, awful giant, then beneath the vast impressive heavens there were only Special. Nature and a Special. girl, sitting very silent,─one under the spreading sunlight, the other where a small tree casts its shadow From “Subha” by Rabindranath Tagore. In Subha by Rabindranath Tagore we have the theme of fear, isolation, loneliness, connection, selfishness, innocence, tradition and control.