GENDER AND MYTH
The historical records show that the position of women in the society was varied according to culture, religion and geographical and scientific developments throughout many years. In general sense, women are supposed to be the submissive, obedient, self-sacrificing and “the angel in the house “as Woolf said. This idea of passive women is represented in approximately the same way in many examples of world literature.
This research paper is a quest to identify the portrayal of the role of angry and lustful women in men’s fate in The Transposed Heads and The Epic of Gilgamesh. The female figures in both works obviously have destructive and constructive features over the main male characters.
1. Constructive Goddess and Destructive …show more content…
Throughout the story, it is obvious that Mann focuses on the motifs of Maya and Shakti of Hinduism through Sita and the goddess Kālī. The term of Shakti refers to multiple ideas in Hindu philosophy and theology:
Its general definition is dynamic energy that is responsible for creation, maintenance, and destruction of the universe. It is identified as female energy because Shakti is responsible for creation, as mothers are responsible for birth. Without Shakti, nothing in this universe would happen; she stimulates Siva, which is passive energy in the form of consciousness, to create (Johnson, n. …show more content…
The love triangle is resolved with both friends’ killing each other simultaneously because the moral condition of the society that they belong to forbid polyandry. As the same customs orders, Sita performs Sati and burns in the funeral pyre of them. Thus, the story of Shridaman, Nanda and Sita comes to a tragic end.
The story of The Transposed Heads illustrates that individualistic and selfish fulfilment of sexual desires of Sita have a destructive force on the fates of Shridaman and Nanda – not only of them but also of her son whose father is physically Nanda as he has the body of Shridaman at the end of the story. Their son, Andhaka becomes a parentless child for the rest of his life. In general, female figure in the story is portrayed as a maleficent by Mann. That is why the reader does not have pity on Sita when she is “shrieking in the fire – because fire when one is not already dead is frightfully painful” (Mann,
The historical records show that the position of women in the society was varied according to culture, religion and geographical and scientific developments throughout many years. In general sense, women are supposed to be the submissive, obedient, self-sacrificing and “the angel in the house “as Woolf said. This idea of passive women is represented in approximately the same way in many examples of world literature.
This research paper is a quest to identify the portrayal of the role of angry and lustful women in men’s fate in The Transposed Heads and The Epic of Gilgamesh. The female figures in both works obviously have destructive and constructive features over the main male characters.
1. Constructive Goddess and Destructive …show more content…
Throughout the story, it is obvious that Mann focuses on the motifs of Maya and Shakti of Hinduism through Sita and the goddess Kālī. The term of Shakti refers to multiple ideas in Hindu philosophy and theology:
Its general definition is dynamic energy that is responsible for creation, maintenance, and destruction of the universe. It is identified as female energy because Shakti is responsible for creation, as mothers are responsible for birth. Without Shakti, nothing in this universe would happen; she stimulates Siva, which is passive energy in the form of consciousness, to create (Johnson, n. …show more content…
The love triangle is resolved with both friends’ killing each other simultaneously because the moral condition of the society that they belong to forbid polyandry. As the same customs orders, Sita performs Sati and burns in the funeral pyre of them. Thus, the story of Shridaman, Nanda and Sita comes to a tragic end.
The story of The Transposed Heads illustrates that individualistic and selfish fulfilment of sexual desires of Sita have a destructive force on the fates of Shridaman and Nanda – not only of them but also of her son whose father is physically Nanda as he has the body of Shridaman at the end of the story. Their son, Andhaka becomes a parentless child for the rest of his life. In general, female figure in the story is portrayed as a maleficent by Mann. That is why the reader does not have pity on Sita when she is “shrieking in the fire – because fire when one is not already dead is frightfully painful” (Mann,