Class 12 English Chapter 11 Notes The Tiger king

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The Tiger king

VISTAS

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Read and find out 

1. Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name? 

Ans. The Tiger king is the Maharaja of Pratibandapuram. He gets the name from his life’s sole mission, which was to kill hundred tigers and prove the forecast wrong.

1. What did the royal infant grow up to be? 

Ans. The royal infant grew up to be taller and stronger by the day. He drank the milk of an English cow, brought up by an English nanny, tutored by an Englishman, watched only English films and was exactly like most crown princes of Indian States.

3. What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill? 

Ans. The Maharaja decided to marry a princess from a state which had a large tiger population.

4. How did the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundredth tiger which was supposed to decide his fate?

Ans. The Maharaja refused to leave the forest till the tiger was found. As days passed, his fury and obstinacy grew and many officers lost their jobs. He even decided to double the land tax if the tiger was not found.

5. What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved? 

Ans. The astrologer would not be harmed as the king himself did not live to order that. Moreover, the prophecy could not be disproved because the hundredth tiger did take his revenge. After supposedly killing hundred tigers the king did not even survive.

S.L. No.	CONTENTS
	PROSE SECTION
1	The Last Lesson
2	Lost Spring
3	Deep Water
4	Indigo
5	Going Places
6	Memoirs Of A Chota Sahib
	POETRY SECTION
1	My Mother At Sixty-Six
2	Keeping Quiet
3	Notes A Thing Of Beauty
4	A Roadside Stand
	VISTAS
1	The Tiger King
2	The Enemy
3	On The Face Of It
4	Memories Of Childhood
5	Magh Bihu Or Maghar Domahi

Reading with insight 

1. The story is a satire on the conceit of those in power. How does the author employ the literary device of dramatic irony in the story?

Ans. When people acquire power, they often mistake it for invincibility. This is the irony that the author highlights in the story “The Tiger King. Being the King, he took the subjects for mere puppets, prosecuting or rewarding them at his own whims and fancies. He put a ban on tiger hunting but excluded himself from the ban because he wanted to prove the astrologers wrong by defying death. He even put his kingdom at stake and dented the state exchequer in his obsession with immortality. He levied tax on people when he could not find a tiger in their village. The conceited King failed to realise that even if the tigers became extinct, he would still meet his death. The writer uses dramatic irony very effectively in the depiction of the King’s death from a toy tiger. He shows how insignificant is the will of man against the divine scheme of things.

2. What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?

Ans. Though the author does not make any obvious comment on torture towards animals, yet, as the story progresses, the reader’s sympathy is directed towards the innocent creatures subjected to gruesome death. In his obsession with immortality, the Tiger King drove an entire species to extinction. Even his own son would probably never see a live tiger but content himself with tiger toys. In this story, it is the King who wanted to attain immortality by killing hundred tigers. In the same way, animals are subjected to similar torture and merciless killings for human gains. Some call it medicinal or aphrodisiac; others call it fashion or food, but whatever may be the reason, animals are slaughtered for human greed. Similarly, in this story too, innocent tigers are killed one after the other to enhance the longevity of the king.

3. How would you describe the behaviour of the Maharaja’s minions towards him? Do you find them truly sincere towards him or are they driven by fear when they obey him? Do we find a similarity in today’s political order?

Ans. The Maharaja’s minions are a perfect example of sycophants prevalent in society. Their allegiance towards the king is to derive some benefit or to be in his good books so that they can enjoy the benefits. None of them have any sincere concern for the king or his life span. They only know that if they do not abide by his orders they would be punished. They also know that if the king is happy, all the people of the kingdom will reap the advantage.

In today’s political order, we find such ‘yes man’ in plenty. Political cronies surround the powerful in the hope of making some profit for themselves. They stoop to any level to satisfy the man in power to save their skin and also with ulterior motive.

4. Can you relate instances of game-hunting among the rich and the powerful in the present times that illustrate the callousness of human beings towards wildlife?

Ans. In present days, there is awareness among common people, especially the young generation to preserve environment and wildlife. But despite the best efforts from wildlife activists and nature lovers, species after species are facing the threat of imminent extinction. There are few instances where film personalities have indulged in game-hunting. The Salman Khan case is known to most of us. There were cases earlier of a renowned family of Indian nobility who indulged in a similar case of game-hunting. However, we must say that animals are not hunted down for sports in today’s world. Poaching animals for their body parts is an unabated trade that is hugely responsible for extinction of species. There is a big market and demand for such things and it fetches astronomical amounts in some countries.

5. We need a new system for the age of ecology -a system which is embedded in the care of all people and also in the care of the Earth and all life upon it. Discuss. 

Ans. The urgent call of this hour is a balance in ecology. There is total ecological imbalance on this planet due to the havoc created by man, supposedly the most evolved being on earth. The exploding population has burdened the earth beyond its capacity to endure. Forests have depleted resulting in disappearance of wildife habitats. Minerals and other natural resources have been drained out and exhausted. Melting of glaciers, depletion of ozone layers, rise in sea level, climate change and global warming are just few of the consequential effects of man’s wanton destruction of environment and ecology.

Though we cannot restore what we have already destroyed, we can still stop it here and now. At least, we should evolve a system by which further degradation is arrested. Let us not forget the fact that we have only one earth as our home, there is nowhere else to go. Let us save the planet and in the process save ourselves from being completely wiped out.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

1. The story of The Tiger King’ is about crime and punishment. Elaborate. (The Tiger King’ 

Ans. We all know that death is inevitable once we take birth. The Tiger King knew it too. It was forewarned that he stood the risk of death from a tiger. But arrogance came in way and he tried to defy death and thus prove the forecast wrong. The astrologer warned him against killing hundred tigers saying the hundredth would prove fatal. To refute the same, the king set out killing tigers, unabated. No one else in his kingdom was allowed to hunt. He cleansed his forests of tigers and did the same to his father in law’s kingdom. The poor tigers died one after the other. The species was on the verge of extinction in most places. Content and proud after killing hundred tigers, though the last was killed by his minister, the king gifted a wooden tiger on his son’s birthday. As fate would have it, the inanimate tiger brought about his unexpected death. He would have died anyway, but as divine retribution, death came in the form of the creature he tortured most.

2. Who is the Tiger King? 

Ans. The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram is the Tiger King. He may be identified as His Highness Jamedar-General, Khiledar -Major, Sata Vyaghra Samhari, Maharajadhiraja Visva Bhuvana Samrat, Sir Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur etc. There are other titles too that are attached to his name. However, he is popularly known as the Tiger King.

3. What did the astrologer foretell about the King’s death?

Ans. On his tenth day, an astrologer foretold that the child would grow up to be a warrior of warriors, hero of heroes, champion of champions. The prince was born in the hour of the Bull. The Bull and the Tiger are enemies. Therefore, his death would come from the Tiger.

4. How did the Maharaja act on the astrologer’s prediction?

Ans. There was no restriction on killing tigers in Pratibandapuram which abounded in forests. But when the astrologer told the King that he had risk from the hundredth tiger he killed, he issued a proclamation that none but he, the King, could hunt tigers in that kingdom. And thus, the Maharaja started on his killing spree.

5. Which incident once endangered the King’s throne?

Ans. The King had once staked his kingdom by refusing permission to a high ranking British officer. to hunt tigers in pratibandapuram. The Maharaja even refused to allow him a photograph beside a tiger the king had killed.

6. Why did the hunts come to a halt even before the King could reach the hundredth score?

Ans. In ten years, the king succeeded in killing seventy tigers. Then the tiger population became extinct in Pratibandapuram. No one knew what to do and the King’s mission came to a halt till a solution could be worked out.

7. How did the King react to the Dewan’s warning not to double the land tax immediately?

Ans. The Maharaja could not locate the hundredth tiger and in his anger, ordered that the land tax be doubled. The Dewan said such an order might create an uprising and their state might fall a prey into the Indian National Congress. In that case, the king said, the Dewan should resign from his post.

8. Where did the Dewan get a hundredth tiger for the King and to what effect?

Ans. The Dewan managed to get the hundredth tiger from the People’s Park in Madras. Though he could not bring it to the Maharaja’s notice on the first day, the tiger wandered into the king’s presence the following day, satisfying the arrogant king’s ego of killing hundred tigers.

9. How did the hundredth tiger take its revenge on the Tiger king?

Ans. After the last killing, the king gifted his sona wooden tiger on his birthday. One day, while they were playing, one of the slivers pierced the king’s right hand. Infection spread all over the arm in no time. The surgeons operated on him but could not save his life. Thus, the hundredth tiger took its final revenge.

10. The uncanny death of the King is an example of divine retribution. How?

Ans. The king’s death was indeed weird and uncanny. A warrior of warriors had to die from a tiny sliver of wood. But there is divine justice for all. He had taken hundred innocent lives just as a game. What he did was nothing to be proud of. He had caused extinction of a species. The heavens rewarded him a befitting punishment.

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