Nagaina In Tikki Tavi

“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” This quote by Friedrich Nietzsche describes Nagaina from the story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” to the point. She was power hungry, which is what made her a demon. Nagaina planned to kill everyone in the bungalow, just for power, but is power really worth more than four, or more lives? There are many ways to describe the villain, or antagonist in the story, like Nagaina, who was a malicious, egotistical, and a desperate character in the story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”. Nagaina proved to be a very malicious character in the story because of her actions and plans. For example, she wanted to get rid of all the people in the bungalow by killing them, and felt no remorse at all. Later, after Nag’s death, Nagaina was very close to attacking Teddy, until Rikki-tikki came in from behind to save him. “Son of the big man that killed Nag,
In “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, Nagaina turned out to be very desperate for the survival of her eggs. During the last scenes of the story, when Rikki-tikki was about to destroy Nagaina’s last egg to lure her away from Teddy, she forgot about every one of her goals just for her last egg and was willing to do anything for it. Nagaina even claimed that she would leave the garden forever and never come back, just for the sake of her egg, which was proven when she says,“Give me the egg, Rikki-tikki. Give me the last of my egg, and I will go away and never come back,” on page 241. Nagaina was willing to lose all her power over the garden just for her one egg. If she could do this much for the life of one egg, did she not realize that it would be wrong for her to kill, Teddy, his father, his mother, and