Rama

(Pfluger). Hal achieves almost divine status among the crewmembers on the mission, as he is shown to be superior to all of the other human members of the crew. His superiority is used to confirm all the fears of Clarke’s contemporary readers, and, like Rama, portray humanity as inferior to technology. Clarke furthers his characterization of Hal through his domination in Chess, saying, “If Hal went all out, he could win any one of them; but that would be bad for morale” (Clarke 100). The game of…

The Hindu religion have a caste system that they are placed into based on birth. The individual’s placement in the caste system is life long and permanent because they believe their ranking is based off of the sins and deeds of their previous lives. Their belief is that they are “Following the assumed natural law that an individual soul is born into its appropriate environment, Hindus assume an individual belongs to a caste by birth” (Gannon 402). Hindus feel good when abiding by the rules of…

Every now and then, people are faced with a problem in which they have to decide whether to do one thing or the other. Sometimes the answer is easy and simple, but there are other times when it is not as easy. In the stories of Gilgamesh, Rama, and Noah, every single one of these people had to make a tough call, maybe one that is harder to make than the other. They all had other choices and they could have easily followed any one of these choices but they did not. It was their duty, their…

Hinduism What is religion? Religion is a set of beliefs and experience. There are many religions in the world such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, Shinto, Daoism, and Confucianism. Every religion has own beliefs systems and experiences. It is based on the individuals’ belief and experiences. Hindu religion is not like the other religions, which based on one person. There are 330 million gods in Hindu religion. It is founded by the Aryan…

The Gupta Dynasty had an advanced empire that was based on Hinduism. Hinduism is a religion that has no specified founder and the people who practice the religion believe it has always existed. Hinduism is polytheistic, meaning they worship more than one god. Three gods that Hindus worship are Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva. These gods are responsible for the creation, sustenance, and destruction of the world. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is in charge of the preservation, Shiva is the destructor of…

where characters showed anger or denial of visual communication. This relates to the idea that conflicts between characters in ancient literature with representation of emotion, which is known as rasa. This relates to the conflict between Rama and Sita. When Rama found Sita he started to speak at rage and with anger revealing his emotions of sadness “ Since,…

In an interview with Bill Moyers, Joseph Campbell describes what it means to be a hero and all the requirements it encompasses. A hero to Campbell is someone who dedicates their life to something or someone other than themselves. The moral objective of being a hero, is saving something, whether it be an individual, a group of people, or an idea. He illustrates a picture that the hero performs at least one of two deeds, if not both; physical and spiritual. The physical deed is defined as the hero…

groundwork in this Seminar Paper. This paper would be divided into five chapters out of which the first, second and the third chapters are the core of this paper. Especially the third chapter as it deals with the roles of those characters apart from Rama, Lakshmana, Sita and Ravana, who were the ‘game changers’ as their role proved to be the turning points in the lives of the four main characters of the epic. The characters which can be termed as ‘game changers’ include Hanuman, Kaikeyi and…

wisdom, and thought it was kind for a ruler to trick a foe without taking away their honor. India’s tales on the other hand use intelligence to defeat their rivals in strategy. Rama wasn’t described specifically as being smart, but he showed his wisdom by utilizing others opinions to make a plan. When Vibishana wanted to join Rama, he “thought it over and asked his battle companions one by one what they thought of the visitor.” After hearing the testimony of his friends, he used the positives…

describes the small indian girl that Santha sat next to she wrote “She had long, glossy black braids and wore a cotton dress, but she still kept on her indian jewelry--a gold chain around her neck, thin gold bracelets, and tiny ruby studs in her ears.” (Rama Rau, 3), by using these phrases she gives the reader a clear picture of what the indian culture looked like on a girl. Similar to “By Any Other Name”, “About a Girl” used a sense strong of imagery as well as the writer wrote “and there was…