f Indians means that Indian audiences pick up these virtues or characteristics from Hindu mythology. For instance, Thomas (69) explains that Sita is the "archetypal dutiful, loyal wife and embodiment of purity, whose trial by fire and abandonment with two young sons are implicitly invoked." Despite her complex construction, Radha still typifies the virtues and characteristics of Hindu goddesses. We see this clearly when she becomes angry at Birju for killing Sukhilala one the day of his daughter's wedding. Outraged at what is to her the height of injustice, Radha mortally shoots her son. In this we see she is like the fierce goddess Kali, who Thomas (69) explains is a "powerful symbol of female sacred authority and embodiments of shakti (female power), who punish and destroy if they are displease
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