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Ramayana. Source. Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley (2008) I want to focus on a particular character this assignment and that is Sita. She is the wife of Rama and someone she loves very much. She is a very interesting character. There are many things that happen throughout this story that help show her characteristics. She is a character that stayed pretty constant.  Sita dropping jewelry to show where she is going. Source.   Sita is a true lover and support system for Rama because when he was sent to the forest for fourteen years, Sita decided to go to the forest with Rama. She was ready live any way possible just to live with Rama because she believes that a women’s place is right next to her husband. She is also kind of demanding, she wanted Rama to get the beautiful deer until he said yes. Because of this, Ravana got Sita but she was very smart, as she was going to Lanka, she started dropping her jewelry so then she can be found when people start looking for her. ...

Ramayana . Source. Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley (2008). The online film, Sita Sings The Blues was really fun to watch. It was definitely easier to understand because of the visual representation and also because they talk in a modern tone. The video also shows some what of another opinion and not just facts that we see all the time. It is also really easy and fun to watch this animated film so it doesn’t feel like class work for me. The character I want to follow is Ravana. He is said to be a evil king of Lanka and that is how I know him too because of the things he does such as kidnap Sita. But in this video they also say that the only bad thing he really does is take Sita. There are other good things about him such as him praying to the gods and has his good weapons. So over all he is a “good king”. He was said to be a devoted follower of Lord Shiva. Ravana also seems to just go with what anyone says sometimes for example his sister, Surphanaka said take Sita from Rama and he ...