THE FROG AND THE NIGHTINGALE

By :- Vikram Seth

About The Auther

Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta in

1952. He left India to study at Oxford where he earned degrees in philosophy, economics, and politics, and went on to study creative writing at Stanford and classical Chinese poetry in China at Nanjing University. His first novel, The Golden Gate, is written entirely in tetrameter sonnets, something that had never been done in the English language before. The Suitable Boy, his prose fiction debut, examined multigenerational Hindu or Muslim conflict in 1950s India and holds the distinction of being the longest single volume ever published in English. But Seth is much more than a literary statistic in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Character Of Frog
The frog has a boastful and patronizing

nature. He also portrays jealousy as the nightingale surpasses him in term of singing and admiration from a crowd who loathed his voice. He is also condescending, and scolds the nightingale in every mistake she makes in an attempt to lower his rivals self-confidence & self esteem. He succeeds in doing so. He is also shown to be money minded, with a capitalistic character (selling the nightingale's song for money).

Character Of Nightingale
The nightingale has a shy or timid

nature. She is also naive and innocent, as she believed in a stranger could actually help her. She is also extremely trusting, having failed to see the jealous motive of the frog to destroy here mentally and physically. She also doesn't fight for her rights, such as not wanting to sing in bad weather. She also gets addicted to the crowd's applause. In the end, it's her innocence & a weak character along with lack of self-confidence that leads to her death.

Figure Of Speech