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Re: Verne's suttee

From: Tom McCormick <jambuvijaya~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:04:55 -0800 (PST)
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I believe Mr. Mahendra Singh's point may be that Parsi people do not practice suttee AT ALL, which would make the entire sequence inaccurate.

Tom




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From: "Rick Walter~at~comcast.net" <rick1walter~at~comcast.net>
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Sat, December 5, 2009 1:44:10 PM
Subject: Verne's suttee 

 
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.  


      


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