PAK LITERATURE

Presented by:
Ayesha Butt
Presented to:
Mam Humaira
Semester:
MA-3-Mor
Roll no:
15095
Moonsoon Wedding (By Taufeek Rafat)
A critique on the classic conservative thinking
of Pakistani Wedding culture(particularly Girl”s
weddinng) and traditions
Contrase two different ideas (rain and wedding)
to narrate a proverb directly linked to Pakistani
culture
“ that girls who lick pots in the kitchen
brings lot of rain on their wedding”

True poetic picture of Pakistani Rular Mob

Multiple Narration
 Different characters are present with
different judgments on bride, wedding and
dowry and rain
For example,
 Bride’s mother
Brides’s Father
Bride
Bridegroom
Father-in-Law of Bride
Highlighted issues
 Parents concerns about martrial life of their
innocent girl
e.g,Mother quotes her “shy one” being sent to a cold
house among Strangers
Bride’s mother counts dowry items
BRIDE’s DILEMMAS about her husband’s nature
Husband fantacies for the fair wife with no
Mother-In-law problems
Father-in-Law lamnets useless dowry against ‘a
couple of oxen’
Stylistic analysis
 use of Free VERSE
Imagery
palankeen –coffin
darkness-grave
Symbolism
flood-elimination of old traditions by
rise of modernism
Conclusion: Human value
By delineating this wedding culture,Rafat
has attempted to communicate the
importance of human dignity not the
material things, whom we chase blindly
throughout the life.
If we will trade human values against
material things,ultimately ,we would be at
loss in the end,justlike the bridegroom and
his father met their awful end.