Week 12 Planning

This week we read a lot of poetry in my Auden course. Specifically, we read T.S. Elliot's Four Quartets and that is something that really stood out to me because he specifically made Indian Epic references. For my last story and addition to my portfolio, I am planning on doing something in the last and final realm of the Inferno where Patrick will meet the devil himself. I'm not sure what stories or who I will use yet, but there are a lot of great material from the past four authors that I might incorporate all into one big medley of an adventure. I am thinking I will use the image of the devil chewing on three traitors, and have one of them be Faust from Goethe's Faust. Then perhaps for the other two traitors I might include Richard Wagner and Zarathustra? I am not too sure where I want to go with the the whole descending into the last part of the Inferno yet. 

However, for my story for next week, I think I will take to the part where Arjuna fights Karna and Karna forgets the words to summon his ultimate weapon. I think I could really do a medley with that and have God be Krishna who gives advice to one of the characters (maybe T.S. Elliot) as he fights against... somebody. Anyways, there is a lot of great stuff that is coming up and I am really excited to take this last story to finish! Also, I think I will end the adventure with a twist as well from Dante’s ending and instead of having Patrick black out and wake up out of hell, I might just have the devil pick Patrick up and eat him. That would be really interesting and I think would be kind of funny as well!



source The devil eating people

Bibliography:

Dante's Inferno
R.K. Narayan The Mahabharata

Week 12 Reading Part B

I chose the part where Arjuna has to face Karna, but before that,  a lot was happening with Bhima and the Kauravas. One thing that occured that I think I missed in R.K. Narayan's version is Bhima's assault on Dussashana and drinking his blood. The detail in Krishna Dharma's version is gory and awesome. I love the dialogue that the other kauravas said after seeing Bhima drink blood. There was a comic level of fear that is depicted in Dharma's version that I did not see in Narayan's version of the Mahabharata. This gives me great ideas for my story.

source Bhima drinks Dushasana's blood. 

Bibliography:

Krishna Dharma - the Mahabharata

Week 12 reading part A

I am continuing with reading more of Krishna Dharma's Mahabharata this week! The passage i looked at was the one about the Bhagavad Gita. I chose that one specifically because in my Fate and the Individual class today, T.S. Elliot made a reference to Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield and it was something from the Bhagavad Gita that Krishna read to Arjuna that allowed him to gain his composure. The spiritual ideas are great. I also am figuring out what I want to do with my last story - possibly something with Faust and Mephistopholes and twisting the plot of where Arjuna surrenders himself to Krishna, Faust surrenders himself to Mephistopholes and thus bounds himself to hell.
Anyways, as far as the actual reading today, one thing that stood out to me was the grief that Arjuna felt at having to fight his brothers. He so much would rather die than to kill them. However, in his doubt his gives himself up to the teaching of Krishna and I think that is so cool. It reminds me of my faith and the constant struggle of religion and giving oneself up to whatever it is that one believes in.

source Krishna shows his full form to Arjuna

Bibliography:
The Mahabharata by Krishna Dharma