Question

The Ramayana is a didactic epic that teaches people, especially the ideal king and ideal wife, how to honor dharma through proper behavior. Choose and analyze one specific passage that offers advice on how people should behave, whether explicit or implicit. In your analysis, you may want to discuss one or more following: Do you agree with this advice? Why or why not? Is this advice still relevant today? How would following this advice make someone a better person?

Answer 1

(A).This story teaches people to;

1.Always obey parents even when one thinks they are wrong.Rama obeyed his father when he was banished.

2.Faithfulness among couples.Rama and the wife were faithful to each other.

3.The wife should always support his husband especially during difficult times.

4.One should never join forces with the evil.Rama's brother did not support his mother and wanted Rama to be the heir to the throne.

(B).I do agree on this story's advice and moral lessons.This is because its teachings will have a positive impact to society.

(C.)This advice is still relevant today because we still have family units which need lessons like these to better themselves

(D.)These advice would make one a better person because following them will minimise conflicts in family,enhance togetherness and also promote good marriages

Explanation:

The Ramayana is a didactic epic that teaches people, especially the ideal king and ideal wife, how to honor dharma through proper behavior. Choose and analyze one specific passage that offers advice on how people should behave, whether explicit or implicit.

Throughout the Ramayana of Valmiki, dharma is considered as ethical conduct shared between persons to endorse an intellect of order. This divine order is inspired throughout the story and shown through a majority of the characters. Sita exhibits dharma by demonstrating qualities of a faithful wife and doing the responsibilities that are projected of her. She stay by her husband side when he is sent away and continues to be faithful as Ravana takes her contrary to her will. Similarly, another show of dharma is when Rama is displaced to the desert and when he saves Sita. He admits his destiny as he respects his father’s guarantee to give two boons to the ignoble Kaikeyi (Ramayana of Valmiki Page 624). Likewise, he ascertains himself as he frees Sita. He performs his responsibility of proving his masculine courage and accomplishing his vows, (Ramayana of Valmiki Page 643) as her husband.

Personally, I agree with the advice provided by the Ramayana since it exhibits both moral and religious values through which individuals may be rewarded for their acts of godly morality. Similarly, it can makes an individual to set an example of role models in the society. Currently, Ramayana is very relevant. It is through this culture that values and morals are set,

Through this advice, an individual can get inspired in a number of ways with how he or she is expected to behave in the society, hence making an individual a better person individual in the society.