The film “Sita Sings the Blues” and “Ramayana the Epic” are two versions of the Ramayana but were portrayed in different ways. “Sita Sings the Blues” was presented by Nina Paley based on Valmiki 's version of the Ramayana and she showed the side that many people don 't know and fail to accept about the Ramayana, Sitas side of the story. She doesn 't portray Rama to be the ideal husband although he goes through the trouble of saving Sita. In the film “Sita Sings the Blues” Nina Paley did not show Lakshmana throughout the whole journey of Rama leaving Ayodhya and trying to finding Sita. Also, Rama himself ends up killing Ravana which was different in the film “Ramayana the Epic.” In the film “Ramayana the Epic,” Rama was portrayed as the ideal …show more content…
Nina Paley 's version had a more modern and comical approach of the film while “Ramayana the Epic” was more serious and followed a constructed storyline. In “Ramayana the Epic,” Lakshmana was portrayed throughout the film as a center of strength to Rama but in “Sita Sings the Blues” he was not perceived as an important character. The way Sita was portrayed in “Sita Sings the Blues” acts as an eye opener to some who aren 't familiar with the entire story of the Ramanya. It shows that although Rama pushed Sita away because of other people 's words and his own disbelief of Sitas purity, Sita continues to love and respect Rama. She doesn 't speak ill of him to their kids that were born. She creates an image that Rama is a perfect human and that he does no wrong. This shows that Sita is an ideal wife because in many Hindu cultures the wifes are suppose to always take the husband 's side and be with him through everything. She does her best and doesn 't hurt his …show more content…
People can not judge others based on what they take from the story. Nina Paley stated “The aspect of the story that I focus on is the relationship between Sita and Rama, who are god 's incarnated as human beings, and even they can 't make their marriage work.” This goes to show that she wanted to portray the relationship between Rama and Sita. This is what she took from the story and created her version of the Ramanya. We can 't say that it is wrong because it 's her own person views and opinion. People can argue with her version of the story because she did portray what happened in the Ramanya. Rama did abandon Sita because he didn 't trust her words and purity. He was so worried about what others were saying that he let go of his own wife. Many people don 't want to accept that because that will hurt Ramas image and name. He is always portrayed as the ideal man. Doing what 's right and moral. What he did to Sita was not right. Even till this day many people in India and other Asian countries perceive Rama and Sita as the ideal couple and they are the example of how a couple should be.They have set expectations for how a couple should live because of the stories that were told by others. Everyone has their own version of the Ramanya that has been passed down through their family and elders. No one can pinpoint and say that one
Good morning Mrs Dover and 8D. I have chosen to analyse the film clip “black fella, white fella” by the Warumpi band, and have determined that the song and associated images is partially successful in communicating aboriginal values, such as culture, land and family. The lyrics include the language features repetition, alliteration and rhetorical questions to deliver a message of reconciliation and equality. These features are also supported by visual imagery that is intended to support the ideas within the song.
Narayan, R. K., and Kampar. (2006). The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic (suggested by the Tamil version of Kamban). New York: Penguin Books. PDF e-book.
Gordon Hollingshead was involved in the production of The Jazz Singer, the first sound movie. (Thanhouser). He was educated in St. Bernard’s school and he was related to Robert E. Lee. Hollingshead was a photographer in WW1. He also suffered a fire in 1946, but luckily survived. Hollingshead died on July 8, 1952, in Balboa, CA(Thanhouser). Gordon Hollingshead created the first sound movie, he used persistence to innovate ways to overcome being told by critics that The Jazz Singer was going to be a failure, and he illuminated the world by letting people hear sound movies.
...d coloring of certain images. The novel, however, puts much greater emphasis on the imagination and creativity, and on the main character Tita. The novel really makes the reader feel Titas pain and grow with her as she discovers her freedom, whereas the movie failed to achieve this. Moreover, the movie tends to ignore the significant of 3 integral motifs, cooking, tears and sensuality.
"From the Ramayana." Prentice Hall Literature. Trans. R. K. Narayan. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004. 190-98. Print.
“Ramayana.” The Language of Literature Ed. Arthur N. Applebee, et al. Boston: McDougal Littell, 1983. 130-140. Print.
The purpose of this essay is to analyze the following animated films: “Girl’s Night Out” by Joanna Quinn (1987), “Persepolis” by Satrapi and Paronnaud (2007), and “Sita Sings the Blues” by Nina Paley (2008). The main goal is to analyze the aesthetic, and the technique of the aforementioned animated films and also, to relate them to the second and third waves of feminist movement.
Victor Jara, An Unfinished Song is the biography of Victor Jara as told by his wife, Joan. Victor spent his youth in the poor urban areas of Chile during the time of World War II. Victor 's peasant background had a major effect on his songs because they were all about the political struggles of the lower class in Chile during that time period. Although he started his music career with lyrics influenced by his upbringing, politics were always an undeniably evident theme in all of Jara 's songs because it was an unavoidable topic. There was a lot of violence, corruption, and injustice going with Chilean politics.
A Mad Girl’s Love Song In Sylvia Plath’s poem “A Mad Girl’s Love Song”, it is hard to determine whether the speaker is mad or going mad. Plath, along with all women in this time period, were defined by their relationship to a man. When a woman was abandoned by her beloved, it was Earth-shattering, as it still can be for many women today. Before the reader even gets into the poem itself, the speaker is already described as “mad” and this word has multiple connotations.
The Ramayana focuses on the trials and tribulations that Rama encounters on his fourteen year exile into the forest, his adventures are sprinkled with examples of honor, virtue and morality, which the film neglects. In The Ramayana, Rama is the prevailing hero and Sita is his wife who accompanies him on his exile, until she is stolen from him by Ravana. She is eventually recovered, but this is only a small part of a larger and more inspiring story. In Nina Paley’s interpretation, the story focuses primarily on Sita and her emotional traumas during her capture and recovery, which were represented quite differently in the film than in the book. It is important to note that in The Ramayana Sita played a much smaller role in the grand scheme of things. Sita was represented as a good little submissive wife, ever faithful and true to husband and she was eager to prove her devotion which was also characteristic of the woman’s traditional role in a patriarchal society in which was reflective of India’s values and social norms. In “Sita Sings the Blues”, many western norms and feministic views were imposed on Sita’s character, making her much more relatable for more modern, Western audiences and less representative of the male-dominated traditional patriarchal Indian
Some of my earliest memories of listening to Michael Jackson include his number 1 hit 'Beat It'. I can remember that when I was younger, Michael Jackson’s 'Beat It' was one of his first songs that I ever listened to. Between the driving rock guitar, the soaring vocals, and the overall story that the song delivers, the song has easily become one of my favorite Michael Jackson tracks to this day.
The interpretations of what comes after death may vary greatly across literature, but one component remains constant: there will always be movement. In her collection Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey discusses the significance, permanence and meaning of death often. The topic is intimate and personal in her life, and inescapable in the general human experience. Part I of Native Guard hosts many of the most personal poems in the collection, and those very closely related to the death of Trethewey’s mother, and the exit of her mother’s presence from her life. In “Graveyard Blues”, Trethewey examines the definition of “home” as a place of lament, in contrast to the comforting meaning in the epitaph beginning Part I, and the significance
The song that I choose to do this assignment on is Fight the Power by Public Enemy. Fight the Power was written in 1989 and quickly became a street anthem for millions of youths. It reflects with issues dealing with both the Civil Rights Movement and to remind everyone that they too have Constitutional Rights. This particular song is about empowerment but also fighting the abuse of power that is given to the law enforcement agencies. It gave citizens of the U.S a more modern outlook on the many struggles that not only the African American community is up against but the other minority groups as well. The song’s message was eventually supposed to bring people together and make the world a better place, even though some teens saw it as a way
Narayan and Saki ,both used similar and different concepts of truth and deception in the stories. There was more differences though between the two than similarities. Narayan’s story “Like the Sun” focused on truth throughout the story and had a lot of examples of irony. While in Saki’s story, the author had the plot revolve around one ironic occurrence.
Rhapsody in Blue was composed by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band in 1924. When the piece introduced to the world at Aeolian Hall on February 12, 1924, on the afternoon of Lincoln’s Birthday, there was no doubt that Rhapsody was unprecedented, and outshined everything else on the previous Jazz form. The editors of the Cambridge Music Handbooks opined that "The Rhapsody in Blue established Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works." As we know, Gershwin’s Rhapsody has been one of the most popular and representative pieces in American music history. Rhapsody was considered as the most profitable piece of concert music ever composed. Gershwin could earn more than a quarter of a million dollars just for royalties and rental fees from recording and performance during the first ten years. He became the most celebrated American composer not only by audiences but also by leading modernist composers. He was the most remarkable American musician who conquered