Reading Notes: Peter Brook Mahabharata, Part C

     I'm continuing to work on the Peter Brook film this week. Part C opens with Amba looking for Bhima. She wants him to kill Bhisma. Bhima will not kill him though, he respects him too much. Amba still looks incredibly young, they claim this ordeal happened over 40 years ago. To which she replies "Hate keeps me young." Draupadi tells Amba to call upon the invisible forces. Eventually she leaves.

    Draupadi tells of how they used to have a kingdom. She asks Yudhisthira how he could've played to lose EVERYTHING. Including his brothers and her. Yudhisthira talks about how they have the same questions as her. Why is one act rewarded? Why is another not? They debate about Dharma and how he could just sit there and do nothing. Why won't he act? She cannot understand it. Bhima begs Yudhisthira to stand up and fight. After a long debate, the group is relatively pacified, and Arjuna decides to go deep into the mountains, where he can obtain weapons for them. They'll need them to fight when the time comes. 

    Meanwhile in the palace, Duryodhana plans for war. He decides to attempt to kill the Pandavas so that they cannot kill him. 

Meanwhile a rakshasa decides to attack the Pandava camp. The female falls in love with Bhima, and she decides that instead of killing him she wants to marry him. And she transforms her self into a beautiful woman for him. They had a son called Gatochacka. She had to leave Bheem.

    Duryodhana found the Pandavas. They nearly killed them, but Vyasa was able to intervene. Thank goodness. I can't understand this part of the story though. They were supposed to never be found, if they were they had to stay longer. I thought they were never found? Maybe I'm mis-remembering part of the story. 

   There is a new little scene between Ghandari and Kunti. They talk about their sons and Ghandari's self-imposed blindness. 

    Arjuna gains a supernatural weapon from Shiva. He then learns how to use it. Time passes and we get the riddles at the lake scene. 
Bibliography. "Mahabharata" by Peter Brook. Web Source.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Introduction to a Future Cybersecurity Professional and Future World Traveler

Image
     Hello everyone, and welcome to the start of my blog! My name is Jackie Austin, I am a graduating Senior from Tulsa, OK. My major is Information Studies, and a cool thing about my major is that I'm able to do a lot of stuff with technology, in fact most of the core courses for my degree were online. The BEST class I took last semester was Cybersecurity Essentials, which was an elective for my degree. It was the best class to me because I got to learn practical knowledge about something that I'm passionate about. I've always been interested in cybersecurity as a possible career field. If any of you who are reading this are familiar with Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds, that's the kind of computer knowledge I want to have. I guess my biggest accomplishment last semester would be to have obtained an A in that cybersecurity course. I can't really think of anything else.      So I have a lot of favorite books/movies/TV shows. I love Harry Potter with all my hea
Read more

Week 11 Story: The Witch Who Saved Herself

Image
  Image of Babbity Rabbity      Once upon a time, there was a witch named Babbity Rabbity who lived in a charming house. She loved practicing her magic. She had to do it in secret, however. For these were the days of the Witch Trials, and any person accused of practicing witchcraft was usually killed.      One day she was practicing her magic as usual, and she thought she was doing it secretly enough, but a sliver of her curtain was open. A young man, who had been passing close by her house as he did everyday, glanced into her window and witnessed her reciting incantations. Face paling with horror, he ran to the town leader to tell him what he had observed. The leader, angry and frightened, rounded up the townsfolk and went to her house.      The witch, surprisingly, didn't deny the accusations. She was a witch and she was proud of it. She was a kind witch, who had never hurt anyone with her magic. They gathered around her, offering suggestions for what to do with her. &q
Read more