I recently came across a meme on Facebook that pictured a girl carrying a bunch of chairs after a teacher said "I need 5 strong boys to help me." Therefore, this girl picked up all the chairs her hands could carry to prove to the teacher that girls are powerful too. I resonated with this image because I have always found myself trying to prove how powerful women are even when we are not given the chance to show our full potential. From an early age such as the girl from the meme I have worked hard in school, home life, and work to demonstrate how one I can come from nothing and make a name for myself and two to show that I am a woman and I am more than capable to do all of this. This is why for this project when I found the sub-genre called "Feminist Heroines" I knew it was right up my ally. I love taking women and gender study classes to truly see how far women have come from while at the same time learning what we can do to improve.
I have found three stories that interest me a lot for this topic and I hope they inspire a lot with you as well. The first story is Ruru and his wife Priyamvada. This story is about how you can love someone else so much and find out how much you are willing to sacrifice for this person. The second story is called Shakuntala: The Woman Wronged which is about a woman who is seduced by a king and ultimately becomes pregnant where she raises the baby by herself. This one is very powerful to me because I see this happening a lot in modern times and could help those going through something such as this story tells. The third story is Savitri: The Perfect Wife. This story is very feminist for its time and shows how Savitri goes on to try and find her perfect husband instead of the husband being picked for her.