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Lovely Public Sr. Sec. School, P.D.

Vihar
English Class XII
AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS
Theme:

The woman at the centre of the poem, Aunt Jennifer, is a nervous and fearful wife. She lacks inner conviction
or ‘certainty’, unlike the tigers she portrays. Aunt Jennifer is ‘mastered’ in her life. She lives a life of inequality.
She is so nervous that her fingers ‘flutter’ through the wool she is using in her tapestry or panel. The poet
portrays the marriage of Jennifer as an unhappy one for her. Aunt Jennifer feels the burden of duty and
obedience. This is shown by the symbol of the wedding ring that she wears. It is described as her husband’s
property: ‘Uncle’s wedding band’. It ‘sits heavily’ on her hand because he dominates her life. Her life with her
husband is described as a life of ‘ordeals’. It is shown that Jennifer is terrified in her marriage. Her husband
may be fiercer to her than the tigers she produces in her artwork. The poem therefore provides a negative
picture of marriage. The poem is probably saying that the ‘Uncle’ or husband is behaving like a tiger, and the
tigers are ‘chivalric’ like the husband should be. Each world is the reverse of what it should be.
MIND MAP
Aunt embroidering motif
Poem is a mystified tragedy.
comprising of energetic, fearless
Aunt's suffering in her She is living a life of
tigers moving freely around the
matrimonial relationship. bright greenery. submissiveness and
suppressio

The tigers are graceful,


pattern of the free and fearless tigers
elegant and bright with a
husband not present in the reflects her inner desire to live a free and
stark contrast to aunt
poem anywhere yet she is fearless life.
Jennifer.
dominated by him.

She does not enjoy the freedom to


Aunt Jennifer’s fingers do anything as per her wish. Since the day she got married, she
tremble as she embroiders has been fulfilling the demands of
her husband.

On the other hand, the tigers that she is


embroidering will continue to move around Even after her death, the ring will remain
. freely forever. on her hand and she will never be free.

She is old but still fears her Her desire of freedom and
The burden of the demanding
husband fearlessness will live on
marriage has exhausted her.
through her tigers.
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