Indian Epics

In this blog post I will outline my story and brain storm elements that I will use for my story during week eight. The character Drona stood out to me because he was the person who trained all of the princes, both the Pandavas brothers and the Kauravas brothers. In the episode "Drona Trains the Princes" of the Mahabharata , Drona promises to train the princes as long as they promise Drona to help him defeat his enemy, Drupada. In my story for week eight I think I am going to keep with the main idea of the story but drop the Mahabharata details. I might even use different names of the characters as well. I will tell a story about a tutor and his students. The tutor will teach the students throughout their entire academic career and train them to be strong academically. The tutor will choose a subject that his students will really want to excel in, such a biology or science. One day the tutor will explain to his students that when they become the smartest people in that s...

For my next story, I am going to focus on the character Ravana. In the film, Sita Sings the Blues it focuses on how Ravana might not have been as evil as everyone thought. When he stole Sita he did not hurt her and did not rape her like everyone else thought he did. The entire reason that Ravana stole Sita in the first place was because Rama and his brother Lakshmana cut off the ears and nose of his sister Shrupanakha . It is kind of an ironic thing because Shrupanakha actually tried to seduce Rama but Rama would not betray Sita. Shrupanakha's brother wouldn't even try to do anything to Sita. But why is Ravana called the demon king? It goes beyond the earthly understanding. Ravana is used as an avatar of a rakshasa , who has a severe bloodlust to kill and eat humans. (Image of a rakshasa from Wiki ) After Ravana served a 10,000 year penance he could not be defeated by god, demons or spirits so that is the reason why Rama (the avatar of Vishnu) is destined to kill ...