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- I found Promila's story to be particularly disturbing. I understood the context, and that her suicide was culturally acceptable, and shouldn't be judged by modern mores. However, I couldn't help doing so. Therefore, I decided to embrace that, and use it to tell my story.
- Promila felt as though she had nothing to live for after Indrajit died, he was literally her entire world. That was treated as normal, and even the way it should be in the story. It supposedly illustrated the depth of the love and loyalty that she felt towards her husband. However, in the time that has passed since the writing of the Ramayana, we have discovered that isn't love and it isn't loyalty. It's dependency, and a complete absence of any sense of self.
- I'd like to write a variation of Promila's story, written from her point of view as though in a suicide note or diary entry. She might have been raised in a very religious culture, which religion is irrelevant, but one that teaches a woman's place as being only an extension of her husband. Her note could detail that her suicide is considered normal, and that she does feel she has to do it, because she is no one without him. However, I also think that she should point out how much she regrets that fact. At the end, she is realizing that never getting a chance to understand who she is as a person, or even knowing that being her own person was a possibility, is a great crime committed against her.
Bibliography: Nine Ideal Indian Women by Sunity Devee. Web Source.
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