For my project, I decided to go for the storybook route. Draupadi is such a rich character with many things to offer that a portfolio would not do it justice.
The way I am currently thinking of taking this story is telling it in a chronological way from birth and so forth or as it was suggested to me start it from when she gets exiled and retell her past as her remembering past memories of who she was. My storybook will be kind of like a chapter book, where each story follows to the other, it will also be written in modern language and it will still be taken place in Draupadi's time. It will be told as to how I view her and reinterpret her story. Some episodes that I want to include are her birth story, marriage to 5 husbands and how that came about, her disrobing, and life in exile. I want to write it in a narrator point of view but also switch to Draupadi's view(I don't know if that will make it confusing) I could probably use italics to demonstrate when switches to her. I want to include her thoughts and feeling because I feel like that can help the reader relate and understand her character better. I really want the readers to see Draupadi as the strong, brave, outspoken, and determined heroine of Mahabharat.
As of now my possible story sources still continue to be Draupadi: Fire-Born Princess by Saraswati Nagpal and The Palace of Illusions: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee but I will also be looking into films as I am a visual learner and from being a fanatic for Telenovelas or dramas I always like to read the characters facial expressions and form of speaking. I think being able to see a character visually really helps one understand, read and study the character better.
The way I am currently thinking of taking this story is telling it in a chronological way from birth and so forth or as it was suggested to me start it from when she gets exiled and retell her past as her remembering past memories of who she was. My storybook will be kind of like a chapter book, where each story follows to the other, it will also be written in modern language and it will still be taken place in Draupadi's time. It will be told as to how I view her and reinterpret her story. Some episodes that I want to include are her birth story, marriage to 5 husbands and how that came about, her disrobing, and life in exile. I want to write it in a narrator point of view but also switch to Draupadi's view(I don't know if that will make it confusing) I could probably use italics to demonstrate when switches to her. I want to include her thoughts and feeling because I feel like that can help the reader relate and understand her character better. I really want the readers to see Draupadi as the strong, brave, outspoken, and determined heroine of Mahabharat.
As of now my possible story sources still continue to be Draupadi: Fire-Born Princess by Saraswati Nagpal and The Palace of Illusions: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee but I will also be looking into films as I am a visual learner and from being a fanatic for Telenovelas or dramas I always like to read the characters facial expressions and form of speaking. I think being able to see a character visually really helps one understand, read and study the character better.
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