THE FATAL NATURE OF POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH IN RAAVAN FROM AMISH TRIPATHI'S RAAVAN: ENEMY OF ARYAVARTA AND WAR OF LANKA

Abstract

This paper discusses the very unexplored nature of traumatic growth that can be seen particularly in villainous characters. It pivots on the character of Raavan, the Lankatipati who is a famously written antagonist in the archives of Hindu mythology. But in the Amishverse, he is written as a villain re-portrayed from the original Ramayana. Not only can the villain be re- represented, but also the very theory of Post- Traumatic Growth can be dynamically altered by the nature of fatalism, to be a subjective concept of psychological growth, through this research on this particular character. The very idea is psychedelic in the sense that the domains of the PTGI (Post Traumatic Growth Inventory) can, in human subjective terms, bend to the anchors of Raavan's persona. The domains of PTGI to be viewed and dissected as per the character, to show this fatalistic dynamic of PTG, are Appreciation of Life, New Possibilities in Life, Personal Strength, Spiritual Change, and Relationship with Others.