Comparison Essay

Every work of literature that represents a society has a way of presenting a unique thing about such a society. In the Ramayana and Iliad poems, the two societies are presented with different and unique characteristics that help in holding the community together. It is in these units that a family is established. The two societies have different families that represent different family dynamics that the writers intended the readers to get. Families are the systems through which different communities use to hold themselves together and they differ from one community to another. These two of such communities have systems that hold the society together. The two communities have developed families as the units that hold the society together. Each

The poem has presented a family where it depicts and ideal family situation. It shows ethically that the family is commendable. This poem has brought out an ideal father who has no flaws and who is able to excuse his duties in a very mature ways. He takes his responsibilities in regard to his children as a father and in regard to his wife as a husband in a very ideal way that in the real world may not be possible. Through this, the Ramayana shows an admirable ethical father. On the same note, it also shows an admirable ethical mother and wife. The wife of the king in this poem is presented as an ideal one who excises her duties in a very mature and ethical way. The wife also plays her role as an ideal mother to the children she has. It is not possible to have such a wife in the real world, even though the poem brings out her character in this way. Notably, the same is the case with the son in the family and the daughter. All of them are present as people who are perfect and who are ethically upright. These are some of the ways that the poem shows an extemporary ethical family that is mature and has no area that it needs to improve on. Arguably, through doing this, the writer of this poem has managed to present a family that lacks challenges and that is able to stand amidst any challenge that may be available. It therefore shows an admirable ethical family with an ideal father, a well trained mother and wife who

Rarely do we see such family. What is observed in most of the families are siblings rivalry and competition. Notably, in the poem, the family is extraordinarily perfect. Surpanakha sacrifices his life so much for his brother. He went to a point of leaving the life where he would get all what he wanted. A life that was of high class is what he left to support his brother. He sacrificed all that to come and stay with his brother in the forest for fourteen years. The reason for this was nothing else but love and care that he had for his brother. From this, it is evident that the family in the poem Ramayana is ethical because one can only deduce from this that the children had learned all this from their parents. The parents had taken their times to shape their children in ways such that they respected and loved each other and they would place the welfare of the other person before theirs. It is out of this that the ethical part of the family is seen. It is ethical for parents to bring up their children in the ways that these parents did. It is also ethical for the children in this poem to stand up for each other as they did and to sacrifice their welfare for the sake of the other’s welfare. These issues show the ethical part of this family (Nayak, Bhagabat,