Week 4 Story - Pride and Prejudice's Darcy and Patrick team up to write a letter to win Elizabeth back from Wickam!

Fitzwilliam Darcy, a very handsome and the rich man who owns and manage the Pemberley estate in England recently had his crush, Elizabeth Bennet, kidnapped by the infamous womanizing militia man known as George Wickam. The tale tells of how, Darcy in an attempt to reclaim Lizzie (Elizabeth) sought a clearing for his head in order to write letters to Elizabeth so that she might fall in love with him and run away from Wickam. Darcy decides to go to one of his estates in Pemberley in order to write letters in private. However, while wondering through his house, he ran into an old gardener whom he had never seen before.

"who are you?" asked the astonished Mr. Darcy.

"Patrick." replied the man

"I must apologize for my rudeness, but I do not think we have ever met before, were you perhaps a retired gardener brought in from the time of my father?"

"no."

"okay cool, well I will see you later then, good sir" replied Darcy as he walked away~

"you came here for a purpose." said Patrick right as Darcy was leaving.

The handsome Darcy looked back at him and whispered coyly

"how did you know?.."

"I have had  prophecies of your coming here" replied Patrick.

He then transformed into his true form - a 6" wooden figurine and smiled sharply at Darcy. Darcy, astonished, was about to retreat in the opposite direction and yell for help when suddenly, patrick POUNCED ON DARCY and said,

"I CAN HELP YOU FIND WICKAM!!"

He then assisted Darcy through his thoughts and how to eloquently portray lay out his feelings towards Ms. Bennett in his letters. Through Patrick's guidance, Darcy was also able to lay out a clear guide as to why Wickam was a terrible match for Elizabeth.

"the man is nothing but a blowhard. Hardly a man of stature, he has no money, and is hardly a gentleman."

Darcy wrote his heart out on paper - telling how contemptible Wickam truly was.

Patrick smiled and flew away~~

photo of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy taken from amazon

Author's Notes:

I got the idea for this production from the scene in The Ramayana where walks up a mountain and encounters Suhgreeva in disguise. Suhgreeva then tests Rama about what his purpose is and then tells Rama of how Vali had committed evil against Suhgreeva and how he cannot go down the mountain anymore.

I really liked the idea of Rama running into a disguised Suhgreeva and it tied in perfectly with what i read this week - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I figured I could write a little fan fiction of how Darcy writes his letter to Lizzie and figured it would be a lot of fun to add Patrick into the mix as well.

I took the same plot of Rama going up the mountain and replaced it with Darcy walking around his Pemberley estate. I also replaced Suhgreeva in disguise, with Patrick in disguise as a gardener. The twist comes from Patrick helping Darcy out instead of vice versa. I basically changed the ending of what happened up there in the mountain in The Ramayana and created this masterpiece.

thanks for reading~~

pat

Bibliography:

- Narayan, R. K., and Kampar. The Ramayana: a Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Suggested by the Tamil Version of Kamban). Penguin Books, 2006.

- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Reading Notes: Ramayana Part B

The ending of the book portrayed Rama defeating Ravana and freeing Sita! Sughreeva was crowned king of his land and Sita cleansed herself in the fire. What I found most amusing was Rama's piety. He knew that having been away from his wife for so long, that it would be unjust for them to go back into regular marriage again so he freed his wife. Sita chose to burn herself in the fire and she came out free.

The language of redemption in the story is quite entertaining. Redemption seems to be a primary theme of death as everyone that died was somehow redeemed - from Dali to Ravana, everyone was redeemed through Rama. The idea perpetuates thoughts in my head about my own qualities. Being a wooden figure, I revere to my creator everyday.

Lastly, one of my favorite things about Rama is the fact that he is still inherently human and still face the temptations that humans face. When Sita burned herself it pained me to think about how Rama must have felt.

image taken from youthekiawaaz

Bibliography:

Narayan, R. K., and Kampar. The Ramayana: a Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Suggested by the Tamil Version of Kamban). Penguin Books, 2006.

Reading notes A: Ramayana

Suhgreeva was pretty cool this week. I find the story of Vali and Suhgreeva quite original. I don’t know of any other myths that involve this type of familial betrayal. One thing that stood out to me though was that Rama delayed shooting the arrow at Vali until Suhgreeva basically thought he was going to die. The whole scenario of Rama coming out as the savior in the final moments right before Vali’s death seems like a spiritual awakening moment part of the story. The scene is similar to how in Christian stories, God would usually test his believers in some manner before revealing that he was there the whole time. The theme of omnipresence and faith seems to revolve around the character of Rama since he is the avatar of the ‘protector’ Vishnu. Furthermore, after Vali’s death, I like how the book portrays the incident as a blessing and redeeming moment for Vali who was wrong the whole time about his brother purposely wanting to overthrow him for the kingdom. The story is overall very interesting and makes me think about the spiritual commonalities of faith in polytheistic cultures and monotheistic ones in that the gods or God always seems to ‘test’ his subjects in some way.



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Bibliography:

Narayan, R. K., and Kampar. The Ramayana: a Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Suggested by the Tamil Version of Kamban). Penguin Books, 2006.