Rabindranath Thakurer 'Muktadhara’: Avravedi Lauhazantra o Vairav-Mondirer Churar Trishul: Pratik o Pratyaya/ রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুরের ‘মুক্তধারা’ : অভ্রভেদী লৌহযন্ত্র ও ভৈরব-মন্দির চূড়ার ত্রিশূল : প্রতীক ও প্রত্যয়

Abstract

We know that a writer's literary works is based on personal experience. Literature is indeed a reflection of the world. Rabindranath, the doyen of Bengali literature, lived a long life and garnered lots of experience. As his bag of experience filled up, he advanced towards the new era, whereby he established his creative mark, recognising the necessity of this new world order. Not stability but mobility is the true spirit of his creative endeavours. After the Second World War, Rabindranath went on a tour of Europe and America and saw the increasingly terrible image of machines in the role of post-war destruction and felt concerned to see people being bound to the slavery of machines. After returning to the country, he protested by composing the metaphorical-symbolic play 'Muktadhara'. Rabindranath's 'Muktadhara' is a deeply symbolic play. The head of the iron instrument and the trident on the top of the Bhairav temple represent two opposite concepts: the head of the iron instrument, which symbolises technocracy, the arrogance and intoxication of mechanical civilisation, and the trident on the roof of the Bhairav temple, which symbolises deism and spiritual power. In our study, we have tried to review how these two symbols explain the basic theory of the play.