CBSE Class 10 Answered
Role played by modern Indian novels in day to day life:
1. Novels became an important source of entertainment. Novel reading gave immense pleasure to reading public.
2. The novel absorbs the attention of the reader, transport the reader to the world of the characters, whose happiness and sadness are shared by the readers as if real.
3. Novels helped in bringing out social evils that were existing in the society. Premchand’s novels forced people to think about the social inequalities that were existing the society. Novels like ‘Titash Ekti Nadir Naam’ or ‘Godan’ depict the life of the people or the neglected sections of society. The downtrodden people of these communities began to protest against oppression.
4. Social novelists often created heroes or heroines with ideal qualities, which could be emulated by their readers. These sometime teach the reader how to be modern without rejecting tradition, or how to accept western ideas without losing one’s identity
5. Novels helped in injecting the feeling of nationalism among the people. For example, song ‘Vande Matram’ written in the novel ‘Anandmath’ aroused people all over the world to fight against the British rule.