![]() ![]() Nag thrashes about furiously, and the noise wakes the man, who fires both barrels of a shotgun into Nag, blowing him in two pieces and almost hitting Rikki. Nag goes to the bathroom to wait and kill the "big man", but Rikki follows Nag and bites the cobra by the head above the hood. She also reminds him that their eggs, laid and hidden in the garden, would hatch soon (as they might the next day) and that their children will need room and quiet. The grateful family pet and praise "our mongoose".Īt Nagaina's urging, Nag plans to kill the human family to empty the house so the cobras can again rule the garden. Although the snake, because of its deadly venom and small size, is an even more dangerous foe than a cobra, the mongoose kills him. After that first encounter with the cobras, Rikki's first true battle is with Karait, a dust brown snakeling who threatens the young boy Teddy. The young mongoose, named Rikki Tikki by its new owner, soon finds himself confronted by two dangerous, murderous cobras, Nag (the word is Hindi for "cobra") and his even more dangerous wife Nagaina, who had the run of the garden while the house was unoccupied. They revive it and decide to keep it as a pet. Segowlee) cantonment in Bihar State, India - discovers a young mongoose half drowned from a storm. Kipling has surprised us with three unexpected visions but by his own views and experiences.An English family who has moved to a bungalow in the jungles of India - Sugauli (former British sp. In conclusion, The “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is not only famous by the heroism but also by a deep sense of the author from the perspective of post colonialism and imperialist culture. From the angle of post colonialism, the mongoose loses the status of hero and becomes, instead, a loyal colonial subject. Rikki-Tikki did not distinguish between right and wrong, but he just wants to return the favor, even killing people of his country. There will be people are the same as the cobras who want to against the British and protect their young. For Instance, some Indian people are the same as Rikki-Tikki who were helped by English people. People can say that the cobras may just want to live but, by their nature, they are inimical to the human and Rikki is properly values. I can point out that Kipling created the reasoning skills and deliberately make the cobras so evil and make Rikki-Tikki so reasoning. The cobras were living at the garden first and they wanted to rule the garden, as they did until Rikki-Tikki came along. However, as I mentioned above, Nag and Nagaina just wanted to defend themselves and their young. Kipling builds Rikki’s heroism in the story form killing the evil cobras and saved the human family life. The cobras desired to live and bear young was as great and all-consuming as was the English family’s need to live in relative safety, free from a slithering death they would never see coming. I can say that the cobras are metaphors for the Indian population and they wanted to stand up against the British invasion. Think of the Indian snakes just want to protect their eggs and take back what belongs to them, they are less villainous if we see them from the angle of post colonialism. Nag and Nagaina desired to ambush the humans is merely the fulfillment of natural instinct. This is the reason why the snakes wanted to kill the human family and take back what belongs to them.įrom my point of view, the human represent an enormous threat to the livelihood of the Indian cobras and their young. The white invaders brought their culture, took over the land and controlled everything. The British family in the story moved into a bungalow in India, where Nag and Nagaina – the snakes, were living. Post colonialism is the period after colonialism, when the invaders had returned to their countries, left many great influence and new culture to the colonies. By reading Kipling’s short story from the angle of post colonialism, we can also discover Kipling’s view on imperialist culture. However, there still something else about the story, the characters and the meaning that we need to interpret. From the traditional angle, I can tell that the mongoose represents the knight protecting his new family and the garden, all of which form his home. Therefore he helped the human family to kill the snakes who was planning to kill them. Rikki-Tikki is an Indian mongoose who was very appreciated the English family for saved him from drowning. But we can also interpret “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” from the angle of post colonialism, which the British family is the invader, the cobras are less villainous and Rikki-Tikki becomes a loyal colonial subject. Many people read it as the story of a heroic mongoose. One of the most famous story in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is the “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, has also been published as a short book. ![]()
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