Ramayana

Antiquity is to understand the power of deceit in that it can be used to influence even the most powerful of people. This value is seen in the stories of The Ramayana, Candide, and A Doll’s House, all three stories are from different time periods but express the same aspect of deceit. The power of deceit is first seen in Valmiki’s The Ramayana towards the beginning of the story when Manthara is…

Journey In the Ramayana translated by R.K. Narayan, Rama overcomes many challenges. Rama is known as the perfect man, who never makes a mistake. Throughout the epic, Rama fulfills his Dharma while searching for his wife, Sita. While fulfilling his Dharma, Rama teaches the reader lessons by his actions, and personality. Through fulfilling his Dharma, Rama teaches the reader the rules of engagement, compassion, and integrity. Rama teaches the readers the rules of engagement in the Ramayana by…

With careful analysis of text, we can compare the virtues that define different cultures. The heroes of Beowulf and The Ramayana, Beowulf and Rama, represent the virtues of each culture. Presented in these two works of literature, the heroes, Beowulf and Rama demonstrate the most important characteristics valued by these cultures. Beowulf and Rama posses similar virtues, both valuing courage and not shirking from challenges, as well as seeing loyalty as a necessary part of someone’s life.…

The human world is a construct, created through man’s manipulation of his environment. It is a world of action, inspired by an unrestricted imagination limited to total human connections. Literature is the language of the imagination. While it is also identified, by Northrop Frye, to be like the human world as it is not just what a human sees, but what a human does with what he sees that makes it human in shape. Literature, in all its forms including as a movie or show, is human in shape…

father, since he knows he has no choice. Another aspect of this is that we can see that Rama shows his love for Sita by wanting her to stay in the kingdom and be happy, not wanting to take away her true purpose in life. Thus, I will prove In The Ramayana, Rama is very accepting of his fate, not once questioning his father’s sentence of exile. Rama knows his father has no choice in the matter, and shows his undying love and respect for him by calmly accepting his…

culture, Varna was referred to as a person’s responsibility regarding their class. Very few females received an initiation to be ‘twice born’ as a symbol of high status according to their top class because it was more much more common for men. In the Ramayana story, Rama, a prince, was banned from his kingdom as a result of his stepmother’s actions against him being the next king. He was banished for 14 years by his father, King Dasaratha. During this period, his wife, Sita was captured by…

combined with 2 lines: the first line was about the Rama’s life story that based on the Ramayana. Nina Paley, the filmmaker, used a colorful depicts way that coalesced the modern realism with the American popular…

After reading the Ramayana comic book and the two Sanskrit versions of this epic poem, I decided to focus on the excerpt Ayodhya to compare to the comic book. Similarly, various texts when translated, can be interpreted inconsistently as to how the writer had originally intended or as the audience is supposed to interpret the text. We see that in these texts, when comparing them there are some major differences, from which questions may arise. Some questions presented may be, “What is the right…

I will see how they displayed our modern day contemporary culture and see what differences were maid. In the film “Sita Sings the Blues” it is written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley set out to show her take of the Ramayana after she herself got dumped by her husband. The Multi-stylistic approach to the film was very carefully put together in a colorful and vibrant fashion that brought the story to life and showed a drift kind of viewpoint to the myth witch…

narrative fiction contains many traditional customs. Works of literature can have many archetypes or tropes that people have always viewed as bad or good. For example, the archetype of a demon or a demoness has always brought up negative thoughts. In the Ramayana of Valmiki, the author breaks a great cultural norm by making us feel empathy for a demoness, Śūrpanakhā. Her desire is to marry Rama but he thinks she is hideous. She is…