Yudhisthira laments, "I feel that, through my desire to recover my kingdom, I caused the destruction of my kinsmen and the extermination of my own race" (Narasimhan 190). He is comforted by Vyasa words: "all this is Destiny. Do what you have been created to do by your maker?you are not your own master" (Narasimhan 190)...
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The war is clearly not used to represent good verses evil. Neither side is completely virtuous. After Draupadi is won in the dice games a forced to go against her will she makes this clear: "The moral standards of the Bharatas and of the Ksatriya code have perished. In this hall everybody assembled looks on while the bound of virtue are transgressed" (Narasimhan 53)...
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Stephen Crane's "the Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, And Pessimi Even as he was so close to land and no longer out in the open sea, nature still takes its role in determining his fate. Objectivity refers to how the author describes reality as it exists, that is, not glorifying something, but rather simply stating the observation...	3 / 642