Marjorata Research Paper

In modern time, women act differently and are treated differently among those from the past. The variation of acts and treatment is determined by era, culture or religion. In many religions and cultures, women are often inferior to men in some ways, they are to devote themselves to men, serve them, treat them as superior and follow any order of men. In South Asia, many people follow the religion of Hinduism. It is a religion that also carries a cultural significance that contains several tradition and literature that become important sources to understand the development of Hinduism. One of the most important pieces of literature is the Mahābhārata, one of the sanskrit epic poems that contain the history of Hinduism and moral laws. In the Mahābhārata, the belief of pativrata is introduced as a married woman loyal to her husband, not only loyal but devoted to him. …show more content…
In the Mahābhārata, many narratives of women practicing the act of pativrata dharma are being analyzed by author Arti Dhand, a woman who focuses on dissecting the sexual ideologies of women in the Mahābhārata in her book, Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata. In her analysis, it seems that women in the Mahābhārata era who practiced pativrata dharma had their lives affected tremendously by having to put her husband above everything and anyone else even above her God to be able to devote herself to her husband, doing this as an act of honoring her God. She is to be concerned and focused on her husband's priorities, to be able to submit herself to her husband. These women are to sacrifice their own personal life to live for another