Reading Notes: Ramayana PDE, Part B
Bharata is furious with his mother for her actions and immediately plans to set out to bring Rama home to sit on the throne. Rama refuses to come back because it would be against what his father commanded. Bharata argues with him but Rama remains strong. I felt like Rama was being kind of rude about this. Everyone wants him to come home, but he's stubborn and trying way too hard to be this impossibly and annoyingly moral person. I would rewrite the ending for this. I'd have Rama put up a bit of a fight, like he doesn't want to steal his brother's thunder. But, after Bharata's insistence, I would write him coming home and taking over the throne.
Rama's wife, Sita, tells her birth story of how she is born from the ground when her father was ploughing. I would like to make a story from this. Maybe a couple has trouble with having children, so they pray to a god and are granted a child which is grown from the ground like a plant. This could even be combined with a part from the start of the Ramayana with the horse sacrifice.
A demon woman tries to convince Rama to leave Sita for her. He turns her down, but comments that his brother is available. I thought this scene was kind of funny and it would be fun to rewrite as a longer drama, perhaps in a modern setting.
The demon woman is furious about the rejection and tries to start an all-out war with Rama. It would be nice to do a rewrite of a young princess with a crush being rejected and her daddy the king starting a war to win the fellow for his daughter.
Ravana tricks Rama and Sita before kidnapping Sita. Honestly, I thought Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana were smarter than this, but they made a very silly mistake. If I wrote off of this, I'd have had Sita go with Rama or Lakshmana. Ravana would be angry and he'd have to come up with a more creative way to steal Sita.
Bibliography: Ramayana PDE
Image Information: Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana, Source: Wikimedia Commons
Rama's wife, Sita, tells her birth story of how she is born from the ground when her father was ploughing. I would like to make a story from this. Maybe a couple has trouble with having children, so they pray to a god and are granted a child which is grown from the ground like a plant. This could even be combined with a part from the start of the Ramayana with the horse sacrifice.
A demon woman tries to convince Rama to leave Sita for her. He turns her down, but comments that his brother is available. I thought this scene was kind of funny and it would be fun to rewrite as a longer drama, perhaps in a modern setting.
The demon woman is furious about the rejection and tries to start an all-out war with Rama. It would be nice to do a rewrite of a young princess with a crush being rejected and her daddy the king starting a war to win the fellow for his daughter.
Ravana tricks Rama and Sita before kidnapping Sita. Honestly, I thought Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana were smarter than this, but they made a very silly mistake. If I wrote off of this, I'd have had Sita go with Rama or Lakshmana. Ravana would be angry and he'd have to come up with a more creative way to steal Sita.
Bibliography: Ramayana PDE
Image Information: Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana, Source: Wikimedia Commons
Comments
Post a Comment