Saturday, 30 April 2016

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling

Based on this text I may evidence that the animals are acting just as wicked as humans who fight and kill for power, and that greed is stronger than moral. Animals in this text are imperialist, humans can be nice too. But goodness cannot exist without evil.

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. "

                                                                -Oscar Wilde, The model millionaire

This text called Rikki-Tikki-Tavi written by Rudyard Kipling is about a mongoose, a brave mongoose, which fights against big and dangerous snakes without fear.
The author of the text shows us the wicked and evil pat of the idiom “survival of the fittest” but in a more human way.


The snake and his wife wanted to kill the humans who lived there because they did want to be the only owners of the place and make it their own kingdom, in which they were the only king and queen, Except of their kids, they were mad because their land was occupied by strangers, the land they seized.

The seized that land because was a place in which they can have a comfortable life, in which they can take care of their babies while they grow up, making sure they are safe and sound, then give them the land so they can keep the bequeathed.

A small but brave mongoose played the hero in this text. Is bewitching that a small mongoose scared the big, dangerous and selfish snakes, He wasn’t afraid of them, he actually was really pissed off by them and for him and his family that was unforgivable.

This brave mongoose proved his bravery fighting against the snakes for the humans; he will take a shot just to defend the innocent, he represents the goodness of humans. In the other hand, the snakes represent the wicked part of life. The mongoose couldn’t be good if there isn’t evil to fight with: And the snakes couldn’t be evil if there aren’t good animals to compare them with.



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