When reading epic stories, especially in the Ramayana or the Mahabharata, you can take note of the many female characters who are very important in the roles they play in the epics. These women are important because they are involved in significant scenarios that are played out within the epic. Within the roles they play they are tied, through marriage, to a significant male character. These marriages, throughout the epics, face crises that you will experience along with the women through their diary entries. Some of these female characters include
Sita, Rambha, Savari, Manthara, and Kaikeyi- and these are only a few of the amazing female characters in the Indian epics. Sita, Rambha, and Kaikeyi are married epic women who face crises in their marriages. This is a good topic for storytelling because, as said earlier, each of these crsies within the epic woman's marriage is a scenario that is played out within the epic.

Within the epic stories, the men may be the heroes, but the women play a very important part and their roles are very specific in which only women could play. These roles consist of a constant battle within marriage between the women characters and the significant male. These important female characters posses many virtues such as loyalty, wisdom, bravery and compassion. These virtues are played out within the scenarios.

I have chosen to reintroduce you to three of the female characters within the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. These three characters have something very important in common and that is marriage. Each female character has to face a struggle within the marriage and the diaries they have kept will express their inner thoughts and feelings regarding that struggle.

Sita, the main female character in the Ramayana, is married to Rama, but their marriage faces many obstacles throughout the Ramayana. Sita is captured by Ravana and must wait to be saved by her husband Rama. Many of her actions are what keep the plot going in the Ramayana with her begging Rama to go after the golden deer and when she drops the jewelry, wisdom, as Ravana takes her away in hopes that Rama will find the jewels and lead him to Sita.. Sita, in the end, has to prove her devotion, her virtue of loyalty, in their marriage to Rama that she expresses in her diary. You can see how she proves her devotion through one of her virtues, bravery. In some versions of the story of Sita walking into the fire to prove her devotion, there is a lot of emphasis on Rama’s feelings and the actions of the fire god Agni, but in Sita’s diary the focus is on her feelings and the bravery she shows in attempting to regain Rama's trust.

A female minor character, within the Ramayana, who is also hurt by Ravana is Rambha. Rambha is married to Nalakubara who faces a crisis withint heir marriage when Ravana forces himself upon her. Ravana shows no respect toward her marital status, and rapes her. Within Rambha’s diary you will see her true emotions as she weeps when writing of the pain she feels. Sita and Rambha share a connection of having to face their husbands and marriage after Ravana forced himself upon them. Each female character had a different experience, but both faced a crisis in their marriage because of Ravana's crimes. Like Sita, Rambha will use the companionship of their diary to reveal their inner thoughts and emotions. When reading the epic stories you get an idea of the emotions these great female characters experience but, these diaries allow you to see the in-depth emotions and thoughts they experience within their marriage through specific situations in the epics plot.

Draupadi, a female character in the epic,  has a very different marriage than that of Sita and Rambha, Druapadi is married to five brothers each possesing a quality she desired in a man. This marriage, to five brothers, beause difficult at times and what is evern more difficult for Draupadi is when she finds out of her past life and how karma has affected her current marriage situation.