Somadeva


 

The role of disguise in the story “Somadeva” is symbolic to the red lotus. It interesting that the red lotus was given to both husband and wife to keep in case the other one commits adultery. The red lotus appears that is almost used almost as a plastic love, and love should be forever. Yet, the plastic really shows the elasticity placed over the situation. One of the things the story fails to do is alert the readers to the story within the story.

I think the main female characters Devasmita was used as a pawn to test her ability to remain faithful to her husband. One thing that I found fascinating in this story was that Devasmita comes off as she cares, but I highly doubt she did. She appeared to be a strong woman (even going against her father’s wishes to marry) but she also seemed somewhat aloof to what was going in the story. This reveals by some of the examples in the story and the nature of relationships between women in men, which a woman can play a man’s game just as well. Now this is to not say that every man plays games but in this story it is clearly a man’s world. I think there is also a revelation that men are men, and women are women. Thus, we are all different and that is okay; there just needs to some type of balance between love, marriage, and power among the genders.

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