Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Week 4 Reading Diary: Ramayana PDE Part D



Notes for Ramayana by Valmiki

  Ravana’s 10 heads reminds me of the multi-headed dragon that grows back two heads every time one if its heads get chopped off.
·         Rama probably gave the lamest reason ever to not take Sita back. Does that mean that all of the killing and fighting that he did was all in vain?
·         Rama said that he knew that Sita was pure and only looked upon him, yet he said that she needed to go into the fire in order to cleanse herself, so the people accept him for receiving Sita back by his hide. Is this a sign of Rama’s weakness of trying to please and prove himself to his people?
·         Did Rama know that Sita was going to be saved by the fire?
·         Looks like I was right. Rama cared more about his image in the kingdom and what people thought about him then about his own wife. When Sita was preserved from the fire, I wonder if he was just “playing along” acting as if he knew what was going on in order to not make himself look dumb.
·         I’m glad that Sita decided to permanently leave Rama because he didn’t deserve her. He already showed what mattered most to him.
·         I feel as if the ending was not satisfying because they all reached a “heavenly state” that I feel was undeserved due to recent decisions that Rama made.

·         Overall, I feel that it was a great story of a man who would go to any lengths to rescue his bride, but it simply lacked the fairytale ending.


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