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    Q. 6 Describe how king Shahpesh punished his builder khipil.
    Answer: “The punishment of khipil” is very interesting story. It is an imaginary story which brings out a moral lesson. Once Shahpesh, the king of Persia, ordered his builder khipil to build a palace for him.
    The king gave him all the matcrials and men he needed. After four years, Shahpesh went to the site to inspect the palace. He found khipil sitting on a marble slab. Round him sat his masons and labourers. Khipil was reciting humorous anecdotes and verses. The king did not like the situation but he did not show his displeasure. He asked khipil to show him his palace. Khipil replied that he had chosen the most suitable site for building a great palace. He assured the king that poets would write poems to praise the palace and travelers would be wonderstruck to see such a noble palace. Soon all the kings of the world would know about the great palace and envy Shahpesh. The king told khipil to stop praising the site and show him the actual palace. Khipil took Shahpesh to the palace which was still incomplete. Many rooms were roofless. Halls were only half finshed. The king praised khipil for his excellent work as if he had not noticed anything wrong in the building. On reaching the first floor, shahpesh asked khipil to walk before him. Khipil was overjoyed at the honour. A little further, khipil stopped and told the king that they had reached a gap in the roof and could no got further. Shahpesh said to his builder that he had spent four years in building the palace and every part of the building was complete and excellent. Khipil stepped forward and fell down through the gap into the deep pond of water below. He did not know how to swim. The king’s guards rescued him. Shahpesh praised him for making such excellent arrangements for bathing. Reaching the hall of state, the king said, ‘I give you permission to sit in the marble chair you have built for me. But there was no chair in the hell. So khipil went to the place where the chair should be and bent his body in a sitting positions and pretended to sit in the chair. He had to remain in this position for many hours. His masons and worked gathered round him and laughed at his plight. Then shahpesh told khipil to take him to the royal gardens. The gardens had no trees. Fountains were dry and incomplete. Weeds and nettles covered the whole place. Shahpesh told khipil to pluck some flowers and smell them. Khipil plucked some nettles and put his nose to them. Soon his nose was red and itchy. He wished to rub it but shahpesh would not allow him to do so. Then the king sent some nettles to khipil’s wife as a gift for her husband. Khipil was allowed to go home. He was not to rub his nose, although he was permitted to request his neighbours to chafe it. When khipil came back to the palace, he was pale, sad and in a pitiable condition. The king made khipil spend three days and three nights in his garden without water. Then for seven days and seven nights, khipil stood in the garden with stretched arms with a pomegranate in each hand. People came to see this wonderful fruit tree planted by khipil. The punishment of khipil was a warning to shahpesh’s courtiers and officers. They mended their ways and began paying attention to their duties.
    Q. 7 Why is the story “The punishment of khipil” called a burlesque fantasy? Substantiate your answer by referring to the relevant details of the story.
    Answer: ‘ The punishment of khipil’ is a burlesque fantasy. A fantasy is an unreal imaginary story. A burlesque is a piece of writing which mockingly imitates another writing or situation and ridicules it. Thus, a burlesque fantasy is an imaginary story which ridicules a character or situation. It has a moral or social purpose. This story makes fun of khipil, the builder, who had a good time at the expense of the king. Khipil ignored his work altogether and instead enjoyed telling stories and songs to the workers and others. He was, therefore, an unreal character. The king made fun of him by a make believe and this is what makes the story a fantasy. Shahpesh led khipil into a certain belief and, in a humorous way, tortured him. Khipil had no choice but to suffer. The king made him jump a gap and he fell into the water below. Then he made him sit for many hours in an imaginary chair. Khipil had to smell nettles and he got itching. He was made to stand for seven days and nights as if he were a fruit tree. The story is a burlesque because it makes fun of the builder and puts him to ridicule. The unreal situation is taken real by the king. Everybody is thus made to laugh at khipil and later quote him as a symbol of fun and laughter. The treatment given to khipil by the king had a good effect on the people. No one could now dare to be talkative and idler. The story has, therefore, a moral purpose.


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