The Post Office

On the surface level Tagore’s play The Post Office represents the eagerness of Amal, a sick child kept confined in a room, to participate in the activity of life around him. But beyond this apparent simplicity lies its profound meaning. It has been read as an allegory of soul seeking what liesContinue Reading

One of the most remarkable features of Rabindranath Tagore’s play The Post Office is the use of symbolism. Tagore uses different phrases, words, characters symbolically. The reader and the audience need to interpret them for their underlying significance. Tagore himself gave an interpretation of The Post Office. Amal’s confinement to the small roomContinue Reading

Rabindranath Tagore’s The Post Office is widely considered as a play of symbols, rather than a play of characters and incidents. However, unlike most symbolic plays, characters in The Post Office are not shadowy and featureless representing certain abstract ideas or feelings. Characters in the play are highly individualized ones breathing life in theirContinue Reading

The title of Rabindranath Tagore’s play The Post Office is highly significant – thematically, as well as, symbolically. It provides an emotional centre around which the main action of the play emerges. The symbolic significance of the post office is very much complex, and works on several levels in different parts ofContinue Reading

Rabindranath Tagore’s 1912 play, The Post Office, revolves around Amal, a child confined to his adopted uncle’s house by an incurable disease. Inspired by the construction of a local post office, Amal fantasizes about receiving a letter from the king or being a postman. The play was translated into English byContinue Reading