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what is the main theme from the story of the snake and the mirror?

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The homeopathy doctor in the chapter ' The Snake and The Mirror' used to live in a rat-infested dilapidated room during the early days of his practice. In the chapter, he narrates an incident from his early days.  One day, when he was looking at the mirror he started admiring his own looks. He believed his handsome looks would help him in marrying a rich female doctor. This was his plan to turn around his life.  It took an encounter with a snake to make him realise that he is just a man of flesh and blood. He realised that he was not superior to others for being a doctor or handsome. The moral of the story is that one should not be proud of one's looks, beauty, achievements and strengths. It is in moments of fear that humans realise the futility of worldly achievements. The doctor is cured of his arrogance after the encounter with the snake.

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THEME

The humorous anecdote revolves round the theme of human vanity and fears and how they affect people. The narrator is a homeopath doctor who is struggling with his poverty and sluggish practice. Nonetheless, he is vain about his looks with or without his moustache and beard, and has the ambition of looking more and more handsome. He also hopes to marry and lead a happy life. A sudden arrival of a snake on the scene turns him pale with fear, but somehow he manages to keep his calm. Meanwhile, attracted by the mirror, the snake decides to ignore him. The narrator takes this opportunity to make good his escape. The snake appears to be almost as vain as the doctor himself. An allied theme in the story is how crises make people turn to God for help.
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The main theme is that the narrator wsa able to save himself when the snake was taken with it's own beauty. 
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The main theme of that story is that even a snake admires its own beauty in front of the mirror. Its basically a humorous story about the doctor and his experience in the room with the snake.
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