The literacy movement along and the desire to break away from traditional cultural views was continuing to increasing because of the difference of colonization between the different colonies. Globalization and technological advances was allowing the views of colonies to be broadened. It was also allowing the different colonies to interact more with each other. “Science and technology also came to be questioned with a new intensity, both in terms of their intrinsic nature and in terms of their effects on human societies” (The Twentieth Century, 2347). Over the time of the twentieth century science and technology has made several changes. “For cultural imagination, three changes have held particular significance: the shift in public scientific …show more content…
He would then have to go the women’s father and ask for permission to marry his daughter. During the old times, the women were not allowed to have much of an opinion on who they married. Throughout the story we can see that there were several occasions that the couple didn’t do things like they would in the old times. For Example, “Apurba woke Mrinmayi and said, “Do you want to go to your father?” Suddenly alert, she clutched his hand and said simply, “Yes!” Apurba whispered, “Come then. We’ll escape very quietly. I’ve arranged a boat.” (Tagore, 2422). In the old days such a thing was un-heard of. The men would not allow their wife to go see their father. The men also required the women to cook and clean for them. Something was different about Apurba. Tagore states, “They cooked together, making mistakes, and ended up with meals not quite what they had intended, which Mrinmayi, now the devoted wife, served to son-in-law and father-in-law, while they teased her about a thousand shortcomings in her household arrangements” (Tagore, 2423). Although Apurba and Mrinmayi didn’t follow the traditional rule for a marriage in the old days in the end they ended up falling in love like husband and wife