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The story of the Ramayana tells of the love Sita has for Rama. This story shows the perfect ideal couple. Rama is brave, wise, and hard-working, and Sita is generous, beautiful and loyal. But during the story, Rama questions the love Sita has because he sees her with another man. Sita tells Rama he is the only one she loves, but Rama does not believe her pureness. He goes on a quest and Sita follows him. He rescues her, but still thinks shes cheating on him. She tells him that they have 2 kids together, but Rama still banishes her. When Rama sees that Sita is being treated badly by the king Ravana, he saves her from him. After he learns of his 2 kids, he accepts Sita and they reunite. A theme of this story is dharma. In ancient India, indians followed the principle of dharma and it is exposed in the story. Here is a picture of Rama and Sita together.

The story of Apollo and Daphne tells the story of how Apollo is in love with Daphne. Apollo, in the beginning of the story, talks to Eros and sees his love arrows. He is struck with the love arrow and begins falling in love with Daphne. Daphne begins to flee, but Apollo becomes more in love with her. Apollo gets impatient and begins chasing her down. Once Apollo catches her, Daphne turns into a tree. Apollo stills embraces the tree and makes its a sacred tree. He makes it his tree. The theme of this book as well as all the other books in metamorphases is about transformation.

The story of Gilgamesh is about the relationship of Gilgamesh and his good friend Enkidu. Gilgamesh was a powerful man, so the gods tried to create Enkidu to be his equal, but they create a relationship and together go on a quest. They go and defeat Humbaba in the Cedar Mountain. Later on the quest, they go and defeat the Bull of Heaven that the goddess Ishtar has sent to destroy Gilgamesh.

Enkidu, as the play goes on, gets sick and dies. Gilgamesh is devastated by his death, and does not want this to happen to him, so he goes on a quest for immortality, but fails because he is told that the gods created life along with death. The theme of this story is that death is inevitable in human life, which Gilgamesh learns.

The play Medea begins in with a conflict. Medea’s husband, Jason, has left her to go with the king’s daughter. Medea gets very upset, and seeks revenge. This play is about how Medea seeks revenge and see if she was right or wrong in the way she sought revenge. She had loved Jason, and they had 2 kids together. She tries to kill Jason, his new wife, the king of Corinth, and her own 2 kids. Many people question if killing her 2 kids was right or wrong. That showed how upset she was because she felt betrayed. She believed she had no choice but to kill all of them. That satisfied her. This play shows how betrayal can bring out the worst in people. There are consequences for every action that takes place. Here is a picture of an actual play of Medea. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/01/theater/20080102_SHAW_SLIDESHOW_5.html