Sita Character Study .pptx

Hello ,My name is Mansi Gujadiya, In this ppt i will discuss about character study of sita.

1. Sita: Poetic Portraits in Toru Dutt's ' Lakshman ' and the Ramayana” Present by Mansi Gujadiya

2. Personal Information Name:- Mansi B. Gujadiya Roll No.:- 12 Enrollment Number:-4069206420220013 Sem :- 3 (M.A) Paper No.:-201 Paper Code:-22406 Paper Name:Indian English Literature-Pre-Independence Topic:- Sita: Poetic Portraits in Toru Dutt's 'Lakshman' and the Ramayana” Submitted to:- Department of English MKBU Email:- [email protected]

3. Introduction The poem "Lakshman" is from Dutt's Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882) . It tells a story from the Hindu epic Ramayana, The poem is a simple conversation between Sita and her brother-in-law. In a poem Sita takes rather an unfair advantage of her staunch guardian’s noble nature. She even goes to the extent of insulting Lakshman

4. Si ta Ramayan Poem Sita has been first interpreted as an ethereal mythological character and then as a dutiful wife who had always obliged to remain as a loyal and a caring wife. Sita gets deeper and deeper into the circles of patriarchy. The lakshmanrekha, the supreme metaphor for women’s restricted movement In the beginning Sita is mild, gentle and unsuspecting and has full faith in Lakshman’s sincerity and loyalty towards her and Rama. But later on her temper changes and she becomes wild and fierce in reaction to Lakshman's lethargy in action.

5. Sita as a human being Sita’s character in the poem ‘Lakshman’ may not be strictly in keeping with her portrayal in the Ramayana, but it is in accordance with human nature , and shows the working of a woman’s mind. In the poem she does not appear as an idealized queen , but as a woman, who behaves as a woman in her condition ought to be. She acts impulsively and easily falls in the trap laid down for her by Ravana, the tricky and mighty king of Lanka.

6. ramayan and poem तम् क्षिप्रम् अभिधाव त्वम् भ्रातरम् शरण एषिणम् || रक्षसाम् वशम् आपन्नम् सिंहानाम् इव गोवृषम् | "He might have come under the subjugation of demons as with a bull coming under the siege of lions, hence, you hurry up so as to near such a brother of yours who is seeking protection." Hark! Lakshman! Hark, again that cry! It is, — it is my husband's voice! Oh hasten, to his succour fly, No more hast thou, dear friend, a choice. He calls on thee, perhaps his foes Environ him on all sides round, That wail, — it means death's final throes! Why sta ndest thou, as magic-bound?

7. Ramayan and poem इच्छसि त्वम् विनश्यन्तम् रामम् लक्ष्मण मत् कृते || लोभात् तु मत् कृतम् नूनम् न अनुगच्छसि राघवम् | "Because of me you wish Rama to be completely destroyed, and only because of your cupidity for me you are not following up on Raghava. It is definite. "He perishes — well, let him die! His wife henceforth shall be mine own "!

8. Ramayan and poem पन्नग असुर गन्धर्व देव दानव राक्षसैः || अशक्यः तव वैदेही भर्ता जेतुम् न संशयः "Oh, Vaidehi, your husband is an impossible one for vincibility by serpents, asura-s, gandharva-s, gods, fiends, demons, no doubt about it. Rakshasas, Danavs, demons, ghosts, Acknowledge in their hearts his might, And slink to their remotest coasts, In terror at his very sight. Evil to him! Oh fear it not, Whatever foes against him rise! Banish for aye the foolish thought, And be thyself, — bold, great, and wise.

9. Parallel story There is a parallel narrative like this in Ramayana where Bali , the ruler of the vanara kingdom Kishkindha ostracized his brother Sugriva from his Kingdom and forcibly took Sugriva’s wife Ruma. In this poem Sita things that Lakshman being disloyal to his brother” she accuses Lakshman by telling him that he wanted to marry his brother’s wife.

10. conclusion In this work, though Toru adopts the concept from the original text of Ramayana by giving high reference to nature, good and bad spirit but she penned Sita’s character as of an ordinary woman. But the character of Lakshman replicates the original text, like his high qualities and helplessness. This work by Toru is a conversion of mythical tale to poem, which is in simple narrative diction.

11. R eference , Desiraju Hanumanta Rao & K. M. K. Murthy. 1998-2008, https://www.valmikiramayan.net/. MEENAKSHI T. “SITA- THE PROTECTED THREAT: A READING OF TORU DUTT'S POEM “LAKSHMAN.”” Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL) , vol. 4, no. 2.2016, 2016, p. 4. 16C/900-903%20MEENAKSHI%20T.pdf/4.2.16C/900-903% 20 MEENAKSHI %20T.pdf f. Accessed 2 Apr-Jun 2016. https://allpoetry.com/lakshman