Question

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

Answer 1

Through this satirical story the author has rightly portrayed how human beings have subjected innocent animals to untold torture and death, merely to fulfill their own whims and fancies. The maharaja’s indiscriminate killing of tigers led to their extinction in some states, but the maharaja was oblivious to the grave consequences his action was leading to. In order to prove an astrologer wrong the maharaja went on a killing spree proving his dominance over the hapless animals.He wished to show his superiority as a human being and exercised his power to kill hundred unlucky tigers.