question_answer

Answer the following in 125-150 words;

How did the peddler feel after robbing the crofter? What course did he adopt and how did he react to the new situation? What does his reaction reveal?

Answer:

The peddler robbed thirty kroner from crofter's house, who gave him shelter for the whole night in his cottage showing him kindness and hospitality. The peddler felt very happy after that and believed, that it was not safe to walk along the public highway. So, he went into the woods but lost his way and when he could not get out of it, he thought the whole world, with its lands and seas, its cities and villages is nothing but a big 'rattrap' and he was the victim of it. He felt that the bait in his case was the money that he had stolen from crofter's house. It was now his turn to be caught in the world's rattrap. Whenever we become the victim to temptations, we get trapped in this vicious circle.             Peddler could not help but think, and was trying to prove his act of robbery that crofter had put the money to trap him and given to temptation, he was also caught. He was not the only one who was tempted, but almost everyone; some or the other day gets trapped.