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Verne's suttee

From: Rick Walter~at~comcast.net <rick1walter~at~comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:44:10 -0700
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:11:44 -0500 Mahendra Singh wrote:

 

"Verne's knowledge of India in Le Tour de monde is a bit spotty . he has Aouda submitting to suttee although she is a Parsee, a rather odd circumstance. The suttee scene is great melodrama but inaccurate in many respects."



Mr. Singh is being awfully rough on Verne here. Aouda hardly "submits" to this ritual cremation: she's drugged and forced to participate, very much against her will. In the same resistant vein, the other Parsi in this episode, the elephant driver, runs huge risks to rescue her.



I'm not clear on what Mr. Singh finds "inaccurate" in this sequence. Verne presents neither Parsi as a proponent of suttee.



All the best,

Rick Walter in Albuquerque.
Received on Sat 05 Dec 2009 - 21:44:23 IST

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