Sita and Surpanakha : blurring the distinction between good and evil women in Valmiki’s Ramayana

• Main Author: Chandrika Mohan
• Other Authors: Walter Philip Wadiak
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63100
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While a superficial understanding of the female characters in the Ramayana enables us to classify them neatly into good or evil categories, a deeper study of them show that many similarities exist between the good and evil characters, and especially so in the comparison of Sita and Surpanakha. As Pa...