The Female Character in the Epic Stories Paradise Lost...

THE FEMALE CHARACTER IN THE EPIC STORIES PARADISE LOST AND THE RAMAYANA [Name of the Student] [Name of the Instructor] [Subject] [Date] The Ramayana and Paradise Lost hold stories of ancient times that tend to explain the existence of two different cultures in the present world. Milton, the author of ‘Paradise Lost,’ concerns himself with the Christian story of the ‘Fall of man’ while Valmiki, the author of The Ramayana, tries to bring out an explanation to the goals of human life. In this assignment, I would like to compare author’s use of two female characters in both The Ramayan and Paradise Lost as I try to explain the mythological themes expressed in these two old myths (Jung 64). Eve in Paradise†¦show more content†¦Milton predecessors portray Eve as deficient in virtuous enterprise. They blamed Eve for the woes of the world and their concept of Eve rooted in dualism, a view that is not depicted by Milton in the book Paradise Lost. Milton, represent Eve as a literary figure separating her from primitive conception by those who hold on tradition yet they are unconscious of prime examples of Eve in the society. Paradise Lost is a literary epic of a personal effort while The Ramayan, however, is a non-literary epic. Sita is the dominant female character in the story The Ramayana and thus is comparable to Eve in Paradise Lost in their contribution to bringing the mythical themes to the two stories as they are both mythical symbols. Paradise Lost is a work of a single individual and thus it is possible to conclude that the characters involved in the story are a projection of the authors ideas on how he wants the characters to appear. It can thus be said that the characters in Paradise Lost are truly Miltons characters. This cannot be said of the characters in the epic story The Ramayana since it is a collective effort of different people in bringing out the epic story. It is due to this that the comparison of the two primary characters in the two separate stories becomes interesting. Sita is first introducedShow MoreRelatedIndian English Novel17483 Words   |  70 Pagesera Indian literature ushered into the modern and then the post-modern era. The saga of the Indian English novel therefore stands as the tale of Changing tradition, the story of a changing India. The stories were there already in India steeped in folklores, myths, written in umpteen languages as India is always the land of stories. However, the concept of Indian English novel or rather the concept of Indians writing in English came much later and it is with the coming of Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Mulk