Reading Notes: Public Domain Edition, Part B

Part B exhibited the same pattern as Part A when it comes to illustrating admiration and love for women. It also utilized the same word formatting. The author also implemented a couplet style of writing. They flowed really well and rhymed. Although each couplet included new descriptions, the content was still relative. In the story Anasuya, the passage spoke so highly of Anasuya's child rearing and hospitable behavior. She was so full of wisdom, which is one aspect that I really focus on with my storytelling. I like to highlight the temperate and soft-spoken characters. It is usually the quiet characters that posses the most impish and treacherous acts.

Furthermore, I admire the boldness and courage that Rama displays as he ventures out into the night and the darkened, isolated areas forest only illuminated by the beams radiating from the the moon. Even with Rama's damnation to isolation, he must continue to fend for his life. He is not alone in the woods; instead, he is encompassed by demons and ancient curses that come to dismember him. I feel as though Rama would be justified and could easily succumb to the vile serpents and demons, because he is only in this situation because of his father's shortcomings. Rama isn't even fighting for his own debt or faults. Rama remains steadfast and proactive by wanting to go deeper into the forest.

At this point, I've started to recognize the plot of my personal story to be created. I will utilize the war between Rama and the rakshasi and demons as the frame of reference. However, the story will have a modern setting. It will focus on a war between the good and evil that most humans cannot see, unless they possess the gift or have been marked, or imprinted, by a celestial being.



Rama striking down rakshasha, Khara. Wikimedia Commons








Bibiliography: Dutt et. al. Ramayana Online: Public Domain Edition. Ramayana Online source.

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