An honest and simple minded person continues to regret a crime committed in a state of emotional frenzy, for the rest of the person's life and confesses it as soon as an opportunity becomes available, although none else is aware of the person's involvement. This is illustrated by Chaya in the novel. The body has a strange power to arouse a sex starved male to induce his mind to accept, what he once rejected; an accidental feminine contact might force him renounce everything else and run back to her. Confronted with a situation, a person might behave in a manner quite different from what he might have imagined capable of; in retrospect, he himself might be surprised at his behavior. Seethapathy illustrates these two aspects in the novel.