That said, the archetypes ring true: Rama the warrior hero obsessed with duty and abandoned/orphaned Sita becomes a hero of her own through her suffering. This shows how to get the best picture of these stories, understanding things like archetypes, scenes and setting show us how the writer, such as Valmiki, used these tools to give us a deep understanding of motives and actions of characters. Without these we would miss out on so much.
I would like to close my paper by going back to Valmiki’s lament over the cries of the female bird after the death of her mate. I could not help to meditate on the fate of Sita. In life arrows of fate can interrupt our lives and sometimes there is no good reason. Life happens. This seems to happen to Sita. Sita marries a prince and gets kicked out of the kingdom, gets abducted by the King of Demons, and gets dumped by the ideal man twice. To me, it is Sita that become the true hero. It takes real power to overcome the adversities and injustices in our lives without becoming demons in the process. I think this is what Valmiki is getting at. In this way, Sita achieves the ideal of her archetype; resilience.
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