Portrayal Of Female Character In Sita And Jaya

In current times in America, the role of women and the role of men is about equal. When it comes to home life, it’s just as common for women to go out and work as it is for a man to do it. Women have even run for President. However, in the Harappan society in ancient India, and in Sumerian times in ancient Mesopotamia, the equality and respect of women weren’t as strong as it is today. Regardless, women were respected to a certain level. Overall, the respect of women in ancient India was similar to the respect of women in Mesopotamia because goddesses were seen as powerful, young women were admired, and women were highly regarded for being able to give birth.

Ramayana, translated by William Buck, is an ancient Indian epic telling the story of a prince named Rama who fights against his adversary, Ravana. Although there are many important female characters throughout the book, they are often seen as subordinate to their male counterparts where intelligence and strength are concerned. One character who proves this stereotype wrong is Sita, Rama’s wife, who often shows that she has the capacity of being just as powerful as the men of the story. By being more mindful than most people around her, Sita defies the expectations that many characters have placed on her. Sita lets the reader see another side of women’s power and shows us the strength that women could have. The reason that Sita proves to be powerful is that she seems to have an understanding of the deeper meaning of her life; precisely the quality that men don’t expect her to have.

for quite some time; she had obtained the boons many, many years back when Śambarāsura was killed. Couldn’t she have asked for the boons all those days? She asked them on My sake. rājyāt bhraṁśaḥ – she asked for Me but at the same time, she asked for herself. How prejudicial this is? What an ordeal this has been?!

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It was not right for her to leave them to fight on their difficult journey alone. It is necessary for people to work together, just like Eumaeus and Odysseus. Melantho, a maid in Odysseus’ house verbally abused the Beggar without any

In the Ramayana by Valmiki, Dasharatha is the King of Ayodhya and has three wives and four sons, Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna. Rama is the ideal and perfect son, and grows up with his brothers. He marries a woman name Sita. However, Bharata's mother is Kaikeyi, who resents Rama being crown king. She calls up a debt that Dasharatha owes her and asks for Rama to be exiled for fourteen years and her son Bharata be made crown prince instead. The devastated Dasharatha has no choice and Rama prepares to leave for exile. Sita and Lakshmana will not leave his side and follow him into the forest. While in the forest, Surpanakha becomes in love with Rama and is wounded by Lakshmana while trying to kill Sita. She

As Rama obeys his father, Sita, Rama’s wife, convinces Rama that she shall go with him, thus fulfilling her dharma s being a

You all must be aware of the epic tale of Ramayana that begins as Lord Rama was exiled to a forest for 14 years with his dear wife, Sita and brother Laxman. To get to the main point straight away, Sita, the epitome of grace and beauty was abducted by the main antagonist of the Ramayana written by Valmiki- Raavan. My mention on Valmiki as the writer is on purpose because it was according to him that Raavan was termed as the villain but in reality,

The epic story of Rama and Sita, as portrayed by Valmiki’s Ramayana and the modern day film Sita sings the Blues are two different versions of the same story which contain several contrasts as well as similarities. The Ramayana is the ancient version which was written by a sage named Valmiki in 550 B.C.E, featuring a love story between an ideal prince and an ideal woman. It outlines the adventures of Rama in his journey to find his abducted wife Sita. Rama is portrayed as an avatar, being the eighth incarnation of one of the Hindu gods Vishnu, while Sita is representing Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of light. The modern day version of the Ramayana is seen in Sita Sings the Blues, where the animator Nina Paley is relating her love story to that of Sita’s predicament. This paper will compare and contrast the epic story of Valmiki’s Ramayana and Sita Sings the Blues in the quest for power, honor, faithfulness and the conflict between good and evil.

The Ramayana can be interpreted multiple ways. Similarities and differences can still be established within Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues and Patel’s Ramayana: Divine Loophole, even when both represent the same scenario with different artistic preferences. Two similarities that can easily be found when Sita enters the pyre is her dark representation in relation to the more vibrant orange or yellow fire, and Sita wearing a bindi. The flames follow beside and behind her, but never before her. Sita is then “part of the fire,” but never being overtaken by it. Sita does not burn because of the fire; she is one with the fire. The bindi is a decorative mark or dot worn at the center of the forehead, each color representing something different. For

She incarnated as Padma When Vishnu incarnated upon earth as Vamana, as Dharani when he incarnated as Parasurama, as Sita when he incarnated as Rama and as Rukmini when he incarnated as Krishna.

Sita is the central female character of the great Hindu epic Ramayana. She is referred as the daughter of mother earth and described as the adopted daughter of King Janaka . In contemporary Hindu culture she is often associated to the symbol of purity and courage.In her youth she marries Ram the prince of Ayodhaya and soon after her marriage she goes to the exile with her husband and brother- in- law Lakshamana. Where she was kidnapped by Ravana the king of Lanka .she is imprisoned in'Ashoka vatika' (Ashok Vatika was a garden in Lanka, the Kingdom of demon king, Ravana) by Ravana in Lanka. Finally rescued by Rama after a great war in which Rama killed Ravana . Thereafter Sita, Ram and Lakshmana returned to Ayodhaya and Sita and Rama were crowned as king and queen. After some time Rama abandons his pregnant wife Sita when the people of Ayodhaya raised questions over Sita's chastity. Sita takes refuge in the hermitage of sage Valmiki and gave birth to twins Luva and Kusha. When her sons unites with their father she returns to the womb of mother earth.

Ravana is the king Lanka; he has ten heads and twenty arms. Soorpanaka describes Sita in such graphic detail that Ravana immediately falls in love with her. Ravana tricks Sita while Rama is away and captures her and takes her away in a chariot.

Passionate Sangeeta was born on 18 February, 1973 in Bihar, India. She grew up in a lower middle class working family; her father late Bindeshwari Singh was a Bihar government employee and her mother was a compassionate family woman. She studied till Nineth standard in the Kendrya Vidyalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal as her father was working there on transfer and did the rest of her schooling in Patna. Her mother had a passion for the poor. Oftentimes, she witnessed her mother helping poor people and offering water and Jaggery to rickshaw pullers and such significant act never failed to make some impacts in her life.

At the point when Sita went into outcast alongside Rama, confronted incalculable hardships, needed to imagine in the most troublesome circumstances, at any rate, she was in the organization of her significant other, master Rama, and had unending assistance from her brother by marriage, Lakshmana served Sita as his mother.