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The Forest of Enchantments — Chitra Divakaruni
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To browse Academia. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Download Free PDF. Amrita Satapathy. Download with Google Download with Facebook or. A short summary of this paper. Volume 8 Issue 2 www. She is unlike the fiery and enigmatic Draupadi who is forceful and exudes dynamism, fierce loyalty, resilience and integrity of character unlike any of Divakaruni's women protagonists --Was I not, in my own way, as responsible for this war as he Dhritarashtra? Divakaruni has tried hard to recondition her reader's mind towards Sita's docility.
People have always incorrectly equated this virtue of hers to a meek and mild persona. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sita is a fresh take on this woman of yore. Divakaruni portrays her as a thinking woman. Divakaruni's attempt to unravel this misconstrued woman breathes life into the otherwise clichéd conception of Sita, who had always seemed so one dimensional and submissive. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni literally pulls her out of her larger than life husband's shadow and projects her as his equal and a powerful entity in her fascinating book.
In fact the beauty of the book lies in the fact that the author cleverly and subtly shows that all of Sita's decisions-be it her choices or her sacrifices or her resentments, were instrumental in building Lord Ram's political, spiritual and social abilities.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sita is indeed the symbol of endurance. It is not the endurance that is equated with a forced compromise. It is endurance that is equated with spiritual and mental fortitude, courage and willpower that every woman should possess. She is also shown as the ultimate symbol of love in all its manifestations. After all, Ramayan in spite of being Ram's story is also a story of love.
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It is Sita's retelling of Ramayana through the many voices that till now had never been allowed to speak, the forest of enchantments download free. Sita the forest of enchantments download free her tale through the voices of Sunaina, Urmila, Kaikeyi, Kaushalya, Soorpanakha, Ahalya, Mandodari-the lost voices which had never been heard Volume 8 Issue 2 www.
So she brings to light the many dimensions of endurance that symbolises each woman character-we see it in Sunaina's intellectual dexterity, in Urmila's staunchness, in Kaikeyi's political acumen and battle prowess, in Kaushalya's unrequited love, in Soorpanakha's rage, in Ahalya's stoic silence and in Mandodari's angst. Through them we know about the sophisticated and peaceful kingdom of Mithila, the grand and intrigue ridden courtrooms and bedrooms of Ayodhya, the domesticity of the royal households, the regressive and patriarchal mind set of the Raghu dynasty, the inflexible notion of duty on whose altar love is sacrificed again and again, the tussle between right and wrong, the philosophy behind ethical and moral repercussions of karma, the opulent Lanka and the hubris of the great Ravana whose only flaw was desiring another woman, the beautiful forests of Dandaka, Panchabati or the Ashokavatika whose enchantments vary from gigantic trees, to rare herbs, the bounteous flora and fauna to mythical or magical beasts and creatures.
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The reader, regrettably never gets an answer to Ahalya's plight. Sita remains unsuccessful in her quest to understand Ahalya or tell her story. This promise remains unfulfilled, where we could visualize, Draupadi, when she said with so much self-assurance --Perhaps that has always been my problem, to rebel against the boundaries that society has prescribed for women. And that is the final advice that I leave for my children: my dearest boys, balance duty with love.
Trust me, it can be done. There is a certain dilution in the delineation and presence of the rest of women characters. They are more like stock characters that exist only to carry forward the story. That is the only disappointing factor of the tale. And the character of Sita, though impressively drawn, becomes more watered down as one progresses into the book.
Her protests and grievance lack the gravitas, which so much defined Divakaruni's Draupadi--The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness. Sita's pain, though deep and justified comes across as a histrionic that makes the tone of the narrative a bit jarring--"If you reject me now, word will travel across Bharatvarsha, and men everywhere will feel that they, too, can reject a wife who has been abducted.
Or even been touched against her will. Countless innocent women -as innocent as I am -will be shunned and punished because of your act. Is that dharma? Is that what you want? One almost misses the elegiac sadness and grace of Draupadi when she realises as the great battle of Mahabharat is fought--Was The forest of enchantments download free not, in my own way, as responsible for this war as he Dhritarashtra? But it certainly is the tale of, by and for the marginalised, the downtrodden, the banished, the ostracised and the disregarded, who have been living their lives in the fringes of our grand mythological narrative arc.
It is a story that educates women of the ways of the men's world-as Suniana, Queen of Mithila pragmatically instructs the naïve princess Sita on the eve of her marriage--If you want to stand up against wrongdoing, if you want to bring about change, do it in a way that doesn't bruise a man's pride.
You'll have a better chance of success. The story is simplistically narrated through flashbacks by the protagonist, Sita, and there are no biases or prejudices is her interpretation of episodes or characters. She is equally smitten by the magnanimous Ram and awed by the charismatic Ravana. The language is very plain and repetitive at many places.
Thus a certain banality seeps into the narrative time to time. The narration sometimes seems overbearing or hackneyed, especially the conversations between Ram and Sita as husband and wife or the courtroom scenes. There is over emphasis on the idea and ideals of love, which makes it very stereotypical at the end of it all. In certain places it tends to become a bit melodramatic as well. The pace is neither fast nor slow, though it gets boring and the reader may feel like it is trudging along the difficult terrain of the forests or the mountain slopes.
But some of the sub plots are brilliant and bring out the essence of the characters beautifully. Kudos to the author for sticking to the original version of the epic. Though a retelling of the epic there are no contrived or arbitrary plot devices within the narrative to confuse the readers. We the forest of enchantments download free all been aware of Ramayana's various versions-the Tulsidas version, the Valmiki version, the Amar Chitra Katha version, the Ramlila versions, or the popular 80s serialised version, the forest of enchantments download free.
The book-this Sitayan, comes the forest of enchantments download free a very crucial juncture when the idea of femininity and womanhood is at the crossroads because it informs us all what it is to be a woman--I bless my daughters who are yet unborn, the forest of enchantments download free. This book is for all to read and understand the unsung heroes of Ramayana-Sita and her ilk. It is a window into the layered world of femininity. References: :Divakaruni Banerjee, Chitra.
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