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Ba And Alka Character Analysis

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Patel anticipating the lack of respect of the children does not divulge the truth about his silence before the unjust surgery. As a father he desires to share his version of the secret. Though he appears cruel in his remarks he ardently wants to save the family from more tragedies. He yearns to prove to be an ideal father to his children. He pleads his daughter “Tara, please believe me when I say that I love you very much and I have never in all my life loved you less or more than I have loved your brother. . . . But your mother would like you to believe that it’s not true” (CP 354). Dr. Thakkar knows the mystery of the Patel family. Being a doctor, instead of advising the parents of Tara and Chandan to save their live, he does everything only to promote his medical achievement through corrupt means.
The emptiness in the lives of the Trivedi family is depicted in Bravely Fought the Queen. Baa is an outstanding example of a villainous mother-in-law who torments her daughters-in-law. As Alka points out to Dolly, “. . . Two things she fights us all with. That bell and her loud mouth” (CP 249) . She keeps on ringing the bell time and again, sometimes even without any reason. It is clear from the following conversation between Baa and Alka:
ALKA. Why do you keep ringing that bell? BAA. If I don’t ring the bell, I will go to …show more content…

Baa is from an affluent family who is badly treated by her husband after marriage. Heartlessly she advises her sons Jiten and Nitin to hate their father and does not stop them from beating their wives. Further she does not hesitate to instigate them to do so. One such event leads to Dolly’s premature delivery and Daksha’s deformity. Out of guilt in her old age she transfers everything to Daksha and loves her. Though she lives in a world of delusion, she wants to compensate her

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