Draupadi

THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE MAHABHARATA The role of women in the Mahabharata makes an interesting and fascinating study providing insight into the strengths and weaknesses of their character. In the Mahabharata, four women play pivotal role in the course of events. The men play dice and wage wars in Mahabharata, as anywhere else; but it is the women who hold power and influence. It is the women who direct the course of events and unconsciously determine the fate of men and their generations to follow

a man they loved the notion of honour, of loyalty towards each other and reputation more than her suffering. Then she decides that she will remember the lesson taught to her and will use it to take revenge, no matter what its price. The questions Draupadi raises, the things she resists and the emotions which drive her strengths in her discourse all leave us, inquisitively, questioning our reception and reading of the Mahabharata. The distinctness of Draupadi’s narrative stands with the fact that Draupadi’s

In The Táin and the Mahābhārata, brothers slaughter and mourn over brothers, parents are separated from their children, and husbands and wives quarrel and grow apart; the ideals of these epics seem to suggest that avoiding desires and violence will resolve such familial conflict. However, it is difficult to generalize from these dramatic epics since they do not necessarily resolve conflicts within families or settle disputes realistically. Nonetheless, the texts offer explanations as to why dysfunctional

Submission and Action of Religious Heroines Written expressly to convey the main beliefs and principles of their respective religions, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Hebrew Bible are composed as epic histories and biographies of mythic figures, whose lives act as fables to teach these principles to the educated, uninitiated believers. In most cases, these fables are told through a heroic male character, blessed by God or a god, who fulfills a destiny defined by his relationship with divine

greatest women of epics Goddess Sita and Draupadi. I would like to draw attention towards that how different they were yet they were similar. One daughter was wanted and other was unwanted for the father,Draupadi just erupted from fire her father just wanted a son. One erupted from fire full grown, Draupadi a woman who hasn’t experienced childhood. She had to suffer because of her husbands. Goddess Sita was saved by her husband. Like Goddess Sita Draupadi was also reincarnation of several goddess

CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION Feministic approach towards a text has developed a multitude of ways to unpack literature in order to understand its essence. Scholars commonly known as Feminine Critique sought to divorce literary analysis away from abstract diction-based arguments and instead tailored their criticism to more “grounded” pieces of literature like plot, characters, and so on and recognize the implicit misogyny of the structure of the story itself. My paper on The Disparate Treatment of Patriarchy

A reimagining of the world-famous Hindu epic, the Mahabharata — told from the perspective of an amazing woman, Draupadi was a fearless princess of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The one with an unbending will. The Proud and wrathful heroine of the epic, Draupadi was an enigmatic woman of substance. Draupadi, meaning daughter of Drupad, was known by numerous other names as well. As the princess of the kingdom of Panchal she was known as Panchaali. She is also called Krishnaa because she was dark skinned

greatest women of epics Goddess Sita and Draupadi. I would like to draw attention towards that how different they were yet they were similar. One daughter was wanted and other was unwanted for the father,Draupadi just erupted from fire her father just wanted a son. One erupted from fire full grown, Draupadi a woman who hasn’t experienced childhood. She had to suffer because of her husbands. Goddess Sita was saved by her husband. Like Goddess Sita Draupadi was also reincarnation of several goddess

Sita, Savitri, Draupadi, Ahalya and Arundhati are the five women that are considered to be the role model. The women in the Hindu-Indian tradition are asked to obey their husbands no matter what they feel. This tradition imprints this in the minds and hearts of the women. If women do not follow this tradition then they will have to face the problems that their role models portrayed in the Epics have faced. Those five women are put on the pedestals of pride and honour. Sita and Draupadi are the main

in their own right, it is basically a story of men pursuing power and men who have wronged and have been wronged with. By virtue of this content, the author has tried to put forth her take on the grey characters of Mahabharta. Keywords:Pandavas, Draupadi, Bhagwat Gita, Krishna, Duryodhana 1. Introduction Mahabharata has been an oft-cited Indian epic for its grey portrayal of characters, their foibles and the unique codes of righteousness it preaches. The story came into existence as conceived