DOTW - Redemption or not - Page 2

I have a question. What exactly is redemption?
To me, it is about realizing one's mistake, taking responsibility of their actions and then trying to do the best to correct it.

Another mythological example 😳 When Dasaratha went hunting once, he actually shoots a boy near the river assuming him to be a deer. This boy is the only care giver of his blind and invalid parents. The boy before his death pleads with the king to take care of his parents.
The repentant king goes to the parents with the sad news and begs for forgiveness confessing his mistake. He does not get any. The parents are too distraught and they die out of sorrow. 😭 But not before telling the king that he will also have a similar fate.. He would die wanting to see his son one last time and never would.

In Ramayana, it is said that Dasaratha paid for his mistake(unintentional as it is but he took 3 lives) by dying without seeing Ram, Lakshman, Bharath or Shatrugnan.

So what has Rashi done in terms of redemption? Dasaratha knew that his mistake was costly. He could have run, leaving the parents alone in the woods and they would never have known what happened to their son. But he did not. The King owned up to his mistake, come whatever the consequences and then paid for it too..
So he was being stupid is it? Should he have just forgotten it and walked away? Maybe then he would not have had to face that curse.. This I think is Rashi's argument.


The truth is, if Rashi does not talk like miss goody two shoes, I think I can accept the fact than her justifying her horrible actions as something to do with 'smartness'. Guilt and a moral conscious to do the right thing may bring nothing but a sense of peace to a person. For some, it may be what they need and for some, it may look stupid.
But let us not confuse the lack of morality with smartness.. From what they have shown till now, the lack of a proper conscious and the cowardice to not own up to one's mistake is touted as Redemption.. How can it be?😕

If someone can throw some light on it please..

I wouldn't class it as redemption, Harini. Otherwise Rashi would have owned up and apologised for all her misdeeds. What she is doing here is self preservation. She knows that she has a better life at the Modis, so what better way than have Gopi and her conditions over a barrel and make it seem like she is doing her a favour. I would like to hint that in order to face the future anew one has to atone further past. In an average person that would be a normal emotion.

Swasthi fantastic topic and fabulous replies from everyone.⭐️

great topic Swasti 👏

Munni, while I certainly agree that Rashi is not the cruel girl of the first year, she is still cruel. She may have avoided any physical harm on Gopi like she did before but her mental and emotional torture have not stopped.

Be it calling Gopi a gawar in her face and shooting from her mother's shoulders, be it using Gopi's weakness as an orphan to her benefit in the Vansh track, be it humiliating and insulting Gopi after the competition or be it calling her a Jethani in the Kumbh Mela, Rashi has used words to torture Gopi to the maximum and make her bend.

As a very smart manipulator, Rashi always has and even now has been using her words to emotionally weaken and torture Gopi. So as much as I agree that the physical torture has gone down, Rashi has not changed anyway

Rashi need not be Gopi. I do not want that at all. But I do need her to have a proper change and realize her mistake. There is a difference between telling Sorry because that serves a purpose to actually feeling sorry for ones action.

If the physical torture had stopped because Rashi felt wrong about what she did, then that is different. I am afraid that Rashi stopped physically torturing Gopi only because she was afraid that Gopi's growing intimacy with Ahem may expose her. Otherwise this would have continued even now.

What would be redemption though is for Rashi to stop her torturing and manipulations on Gopi altogether. It is all nice of her to say that Gopi is a good person just to have her way, but she is back to frowning and being irritated when Nikki praised Gopi just once. That is not something Rashi would do if she really felt sorry for her actions.

So no.. I do not think that there is any change. Rather, I can see Rashi going back to her original avatar if this continues🥱

Harini

Aww Munni.. You take care girl.. 😛


There is something though that troubled me when I thought about it. I realized that I expected Dhawal to understand Kinjal's mistake with Falguni and forgive her while when Jigar did the same, I was angry that he did.

So that made me think if I was being prejudiced about Rashi and being too hypocritical.

But then it struck me that I was not wrong.. I feel sorry for Kinjal and angry at Dhawal's behavior because of the fact that Kinjal has confessed to her faults and what more is wholeheartedly working to correct her mistake (whether it is a mistake or not is another discussion)

In Rashi's case, I don't find that realization like Kinjal's. Unlike Kinjal Rashi did not realize the error of her ways. Nor was she humble enough to actually mean her apology.

No wonder I do not see any redemption.. And to add to that when Jigar fawns over her, it adds fuel to fire.. How will one redeem oneself when they know that it is not at all necessary to do so.. After all Rashi has everyone tied around her fingers. She reminds me partly of a character named Nandini in a tamil classic, only Nandini was far more intelligent and had a definite motive for playing with men..
Rashi on the other hand is aimless🤢

I was watching dangerous liaisons (You go Glenn Close👏).
There is this last scene when the entire audience Boo's at her and she finally gets what she deserves.. I somehow have a feeling that this will happen to Rashi at one point of time and she will be shown completely redeemed after that.😕