- One question that I had as I was reading, was why is there so much hatred towards the Pandavas. With people not liking the Pandavas, especially Dhirtarashtra's son, I can kind of correlate it to being seen as the outcast. When people outcast others, they are usually intimidated by them. Which in turn makes them want to break them down mentally and get inside their heads. A real life example, would be someone being bullied and in the future will retaliate.
- Another thing that I picked up on, was there seems to be a little love triangle going on. Narada, goes to the Pandavas and warns them of the conflict that might spring up because of the sharing of Draupadi, their wife. Arjuna interrupts Yudhishthira and Draupadi's while being married, therefore he is exiled. During that time, Arjuna marries Ulupi and Subhadra. I wonder how the women felt in this situation. Having to share a man with someone else, might have sparked some competition between women and might have even sparked revenge.
- Once again, there are people who are trying to get revenge on the Pandavas, because they possess such great power. One way that they thought about tricking the Pandavas, was through a game of dice. Now dice could be tricky, because to me it is a form of gambling and gambling creates risk. Even if you are down to nothing, you still want to take a chance on luck because you could potentially get everything back. Yudhishthira loses everything in the dice game, but to continues to push his luck. I thought that it was crazy that he was willing to gamble his brothers, himself, and also his wife away (check pg. 55-60).
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