This section of reading seems to take a much more narrative
tone. The descriptions have grown much lighter and the story seems to move into
a more narrative style. This could just be the author’s for these individual
pieces’ styles though. I could defiantly take the form though and use as a more
mid-story form of my pieces. I could start with a more traditional style with
heavy description and matter of fact elements and then move to a more narrative
style that engrosses the reader with more events and actions. This more
traditional story-telling style is really clear in Bharata Returns and it’s definitely a style I would like to emulate
in my own writing. It’s not as cut and dry as much of the reading has been. The
pieces in general though for the first several stories in this section are all
heavily driven with scene rather than description which makes the reading
process much more pleasant.
The theme of brotherly love and commitment is really clear
here in these pieces. Bharata has everything going for him. The throne is his
if he would only take it and yet he knows it is rightfully his brother’s and so
he forgoes taking it for himself and even begs his brother to return home. It’s
a very powerful image – this giving up of power in the name of fraternal love.
It’s definitely something I would be interested in trying to include in my
writing. It is a bit weird that the sandals become the figurative ruler of the
city in Rama’s place, but it’s still a very powerful image. It might be worth
re-writing a modern telling using sneakers or something more modern to really
show the strangeness but significance behind the actions taken.
As I’ve been reading more and more of the pieces in verse, I
definitely am leaning towards writing in prose instead. While the poetic form
can be attractive, I feel that this type of story lends itself better to direct
narrative form of prose rather than verse. I’ll probably avoid writing verse
here unless I have to. The direct narration and strong images and scenes really
are far more attractive to the average reader. It could still be fun though to
mess around in verse in the future. I’m not writing it off completely but I am
leaning against doing it.
(Rama defeats Khara, wikimedia commons)
Bibilography: Public Domain Ramayana
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