'Mahabharata' characters - 'human' or not? - Page 2

Originally posted by: anu rulz

I dnt claim to have read the kmg mb as many on the forum but whatever I have read from c rajagopalachariz version, shri km munshi, "jaya" and various fictional works , makes me have respect for almost all characters..I hope noone gets offended by my lack of knowledge abt the epic..

Hi five even i like most of characters in the epic .I don't hate any character as such not even duryodhan who is supposed to be the main villian. Dont see him as a villian either perhaps a very flawed human being but that's it sometimes i think i get his POV as well

And i agree with divya Mahbharat isn't the story about heroes and villains its about many flawed character's trying to survive the world with their own inscurites ,jealousies ,views of righteousness,wants ,desires etc.And through these flawed human beings we get to learn what is right and wrong .Yes ultimately it ends with a war for justice but this war for justice isnt between heroes and villains its between flawed character's and perhaps more flawed character's

So instead of judging character's because of one or two incidents why cant we take all their actions into consideration and then analyze who they truly were.One action of one character will never give you the true understanding of that character

i think for even the most greatest character's we can count atleast one wrong thing they did and for the most vile charcter's we can find at least one likeable thing in them.That's why these character's are beautiful and relatable

Originally posted by: Surya_krsnbhakt

Agreed. Bhishma was one of the greatest devotees.

But ⭐️Bhishma is not.

I think when XYZ refers to 'hypocrite' and 'Adharmaraj', (s)he might be referring to ⭐️Characters.

i agree for example in yudhishtir's case as per ⭐️bharat it seems like he staked drauapdi because he was proud of his dharam.Definitely this will make people think if he really knew what dharma was

but as per the epic yudi staking his wife had nothing to do with dharam it was moment of human weakness

Surya, I agree, but Gandhari had little to no real power. Whereas Dhritarashtra could and did abuse his command of Bheeshma, Drona, Kripa, Bhurishrava/Bahlika/Somadatta and other Kuru elders in getting them to join the war against the Pandavas. From Kunti's end, it was her shamelessly staying on in Hastinapur after the Pandava exile, and following DG like a leech after they decided to retire to the forests. That, and her lifelong abuse of Karna from the rangbhoomi onwards