Rama had basically started a war to get his woman back, in the eyes of the public it seemed that Rama had just went after what was taken from him. Yet if you look deeper into the context clues and the private conversation between he and Sita you realize he had deeper intentions. Rama and Sita were yes, royalty, but they also represented so much more. In the East/Middle Eastern cultures relationships mean so much more than in the West. They are held in an extremely high regard; Families have to approve, there are standards. Rama and Sita not only had standards for their relationship, but they were the standard for India. We see that Rama comes off standoffish to his lover who fought so hard to stay true to him. He shows a rage towards her in the Fire Ordeal of …show more content…
In my wrath, I have won you back from the hands of my enemy just as through his austerities, the contemplative sage Agastya won back the southern lands that had been inaccessible to all living beings.
Please understand that I did not undertake this Great War effort-now brought to completion through the valor of my allies-on your account. Instead I did all this on order to protect my reputation and in every way to wipe clean the insult and disgrace to my illustrious lineage.
Since, however, your virtue is now in doubt, your presence has become as unbearable to me as a bright lamp to a man afflicted with a disease of the eye.
Go, therefore, as you please with my permission, daughter of Janaka, in any of the ten directions. I have no further use for you, my lady.” (The Ramayana of Valmiki, Book 6. 913) As you can see from that passage, Rama seems very cold, standoffish and unsympathetic towards Sita. He doesn’t seem to acknowledge that she unwillingly went with Ravana, and what she might have been through. He doesn’t care to listen to her or ask if she was true to him. He continues on that same page right after that