A Summary Of Female Characters In Sita

Myths help people to understand their customs and tradition. The western myths are largely the derivatives of the Greek and Roman mythologies. In India, we have our very own Ramayana and Mahabharata, tales from Vedas, Upanishads, etc., which are introduced to us even from our early ages. The problem is we do not understand them completely as we are not told the entire story but only certain parts of it. Indian myths are largely patriarchal, where we find the female characters playing marginal roles even though the entire epic centres on the actions caused by these women. Modern retellings of the mythologies offer a fresh take on the women characters of these epics. One such powerful revisiting of Ramayana is Amish Tripathi’s Ram Chandra Series. The first novel in the series is titled Scion of Ikshvaku which deals about the story of Ram and it is followed by Sita: Warrior of Mithila that deals about the story of Sita. The series is planned by Amish to be written in the style of multilinear narration. These two novels are to be followed by other novels which will merge the individual stories of the main characters of the novels into one. The aim of this paper is to analyse the unconventional portrayal of Sita as “The Born Vishnu” in the novel Sita:
Mahabharata would have not been possible without Draupadi because it is she who initiates the major course of action through her vow. And same is the case with Ramayana where Sita attracts the attention of Raavan who abducts her thereby plotting his own death. But when we read these epics, we do not attach much importance to the women characters. Modern retellings of the mythologies offer a fresh take on the women characters of these epics. Mythopoeia (retelling of the myths) is garnering huge attention in the current literary