karn role. hero or tragic anti hero?

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Posted: 10 years ago
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i suprised that the CV are rewriting the mahabharata. and karn real role in it??

maybe karn's did not entirely support duryodhan in the varnavat conspiracy, but he didn't stop it either or try to. so why are they showing karn trying to go save the pandavas????
karn was no reformer. yes karn had the ability to be a better man then any of the pandavas. and if he had found out earlier that he was a pandava too, he would have made a better king then yudhisthira, but that is besides the point.
karn only claim to history was his loyalty and generosity, his valour was tarnished the day he helped kill the sixteen year old Abhimanyu, when he and the kuru maharathi slaughtered him like a pack of wolves.

no doubt karn was a good man, a loving husband and father,a loyal friend and a braver and skilled warrior, but he was no reformer, he did not uphold dharma, or follow the path of it. it was karn warrior skills that encouraged duryodhan to commit all his atrocities.

i know that karn and krishna never met in the manner shown in the serial, where krishna tried to make him understand that a mans choices paves his path to rise or fall. i wish it had really happened. karn even though knew dharma he was not a part of it because for him being a friend to duryodhana and only duryodhana interest was his foremost dharma. and not the interest of all mankind.

karna was brave and maybe a better archer then arjun,but he choice was loyalty to duryodhana

Arjun may not have been better then karna in archery, but his choice was his unwavering Bhakti to Lord Krishna, and it was for this very reason he could never be defeated.

i only wished that the serial people do not misinterpret such an epic as the mahabharata so blatantly, karn was an anti hero, a tragic hero of the epic, he was no a hero

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Posted: 10 years ago
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Ist of all in Mb none was a true reformer ...it was a story of both the clan having two different pov...it is fact that winners always get their advantage to depicts and mould all the facts according to them which pandavas too get that advantage...otherwise there was many incidents described in the story which is not at all considered as the body of work of a reformer group...in the dharma adharma game pandavas kauravas were 52-48...they fought for their own reason...it was nowhere a war of need...it was a war of greed..nothing else...but writer very cleverly cover up all the misdeed of pandavas under the name of dharma which supported them only...dharma was itself a very complicated term...it's. Varied from one to other and one circumstances to other...so it's we should not discuss about it.
Karna is very much epitome of valor till now...if arjuna's valor does not degraded by his unethical killing of kaurava worriers then karna's valor too can not be degraded by unethical supporting of abhimannu killing...and more than that karna was a valorious man becoz life long he faced many misbehaviour and misjudgement from ppl but still he never stoop down...and finally he earned all the respect he deserved after his death...a man is called worrier not only to fight in the war but also to fight in war of life..

Me too is not liking the way sidT is showing his fictionalised version...as a story of karna I expected that makers should justify his pov...but here makers are just whitewashing the pandava clan under the name of karna..
Ppl loved him despite of knowing that he was antagonists for the protagonists of the story...becoz ppl empathise him in every step...but sidT is absolutely overlooking that fact...i really want this show should be off air as soon as possible...becoz it is degrading karna...he may be was antihero but his ideology is well accepted in modern world...he looked for equalism...despite of being a commoner he stood to achive the place of a privilege caste ppl in the society...and to many extent he was successful too ...and that is the reason we are discussing on him even after 5k years... 😊
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