Reading Notes: Ramayana Part D

On reading D for this week, I wanted to focus on plot and mainly the ending, because that was fairly frustrating for me. Rama, being this person who is described through most of the Ramayana as a person with flawless morals and actions, seems to make a very stupid judgment call and lives the rest of his life somewhat in sadness because of it. After everything he had been through with Sita, he banished her to the woods because she was kidnapped. He claims that her body is no longer pure, although from the viewpoints we were given, it seems that all she did was sit trapped underneath a tree with no man, including Ravana, really making any physical contact with her. She then gives birth to his two sons and he doesn’t even know about it because she is in exile. It was powerful at the end when Rama asked her to come back and she left to go be with the gods. It felt fitting and that Rama had that coming, since he had been horrible to her all for the sake of preserving the people’s view of him, which I’m not convinced would’ve changed at all. 

I understand the importance of traditional values, but with the way Rama had been described throughout the Ramayana, it seemed like he would be the one at the end to go against those traditional values to do what he thought was right. The ending didn’t quite seem like the reaction you’d expect Rama to have, and I was fairly disappointed in that. The second half of the Ramayana had been about him saving Sita, and once he actually accomplished that he banished her to the woods. It was at least an exciting plot twist, and I suppose Rama will see her once he goes to the gods as well.

Web Source for Public Domain version of Ramayana Part D

The Departure of Sita

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