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By Anonymous
Hi GUYS!!! I KNOW I’VE BEEN SLACKING ABOUT UPLOADING videos and what not, but lately I’ve been having some technical issues and life has been CRAZY!


We are at the finish line you guys, we are almost done with the semester and Christmas time (Mt favorite part of the years besides my birthday). Today I am going to do a regular review (booooo, I know) without a video, just words and my opinion. With you already knowing how my voice sounds, you can read it in my to make it more interesting and help you understand it! Lets dig into thus weeks review!!!     

Sita's Ramayana


‘The Ramayana’ is an ancient comic that was composed during the 5th BCE about the Prince Rama of Ayodhya and the seventh avatar of Vishnu. Prince Rama was returning from a quest to save his to save his wife, Sita, from Ravana[1]. Ravana was a mythical multi-headed demon-king of Lanka in Hindu mythology. Ravana had ten heads with twenty arms, and could change into any form that he wished to. He was defined by evil with his many battles against Rama that he had always seemed to lose[2]. This story ‘Sista’s Ramayna’ seem to be a similar story from the point of view of Rama’s wife.

            Ravana’s wife was captured by “the demon King Ravana” that came to her as a thin and weak bodied Minstrel, beating a drum and asking if she would let him in and offer him something to eat. This was after Sita had been locked away by Lakshmana because he was ordered by Rama to stand guard. Rama had fled out into the forest to catch a deer that Rama had asked him to, not knowing that this deer was Maricha, the enchanted uncle of Surpanka princess of Lanka as stated on page seventeen. Surpanka wanted her uncle to avenge the insult of Lakshmana seizing his sword and cutting off her nose. She wanted them to kill Lakshmana, Rama and capture Sita.

In the end Sita was returned back to the forest by Rama. She stated “let me go take care of our children. Having gained a farther, they now lose a mother. You must be both to them!” knowing that she was to disappear and never be seen again, this scene was on page 149. This aligns with ‘Understanding Comics’ by Scott Mccloud because on page sixteen it talks about how “Hogart’s stories were first exhibited as a series of paintings” and the last few pages of ‘Sita’s Ramayana’ says that “Sita’s Ramayana was painted before it was written.” Sita Ramayana was adopted from Patua artist Moyna Chirtarkar’s “... scroll-version to the from of a fast-paced graphic narrative.” This also leaves the reader with an understanding of how in-depth art can really be. Pictures don’t always need words to tell stories and sometimes the perfect words can draw the perfect image.
Basu, Anindita. “Ramayana.” Ancient History Encyclopedia, Ancient History Encyclopedia, 30 Aug. 2019, https://www.ancient.eu/The_Ramayana/.





Cartwright, Mark. “Ravana.” Ancient History Encyclopedia, Ancient History Encyclopedia, 13 Apr. 2016, https://www.ancient.eu/Ravana/.
McCloud, Scott. The Invisible Art Understanding Comics. HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.



[1] "Ramayana - Ancient History Encyclopedia." 30 Aug. 2016, https://www.ancient.eu/The_Ramayana/. Accessed 24 Nov. 2019.
[2] "Ravana - Ancient History Encyclopedia." https://www.ancient.eu/Ravana/. Accessed 24 Nov. 2019.

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