Ramayana

This was very first time I ever read or heard about the Ramayana which is one of the two epic Hundu poems. It was really hard to understand because of the way it was written and how it was translated (hardest of all the literatures we read in class). The Ramayana is a poem that tells about the life of Rama who is the main hero in the story and his great characteristics as a leader. Intriguingly, in both the Iliad and the Ramayana contains the story of abductions and both resulted in major wars. In the Iliad, Agamemnon abducts Chryseis and it led to a war just as Raven kidnaps Sita, Rama’s lover, and ended up in a war between two characters. It made me wonder, what important role does abduction plays in ancient epics that both of the famous literature contains the stories about it? Sita, in other hand, is very virtuous character who exemplifies how woman should behave as a wife. And also Rama does not let his love affair interfere with his responsibility as a ruler although he loves Sita. There are some similarities between the Iliad and the Ramayana but their details were developed very differently.