Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of EnglishM. K. Bhavnagar University

Name: Gohil Devikaba J

Roll no.: 06

Topic’s Name: What is Myth?

Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad Sir

Batch: 2014-16

Paper name: Indian Writing in English

Contact Me: devikagohil13@gmail.com

What is Myth?• A myth is a story that may or may not be true. The definition of the word Myth is still subject to debate. Myths may be very old, or new for example: urban myths.

• Myth is expressive of the total vision of the human situation, human destiny, human inspiration and apprehensions.

• We can say that it is a tradition which we inherit from our forefathers.

• Myth consider both the meaning bad and good at a time.

• In the Greek, there is a myth of Orpheus, a legendry musician, poet and prophet.

• The story tells that he was so powerful singer that even the stones were affected by his music.

• His attempt was to retrieve (to get back) his wife Eurydice from the underworld.

• In Greek there is also another myth about Demeter the goddesses of harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth.

• Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.

• Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and the harvest goddess Demeter, and is the queen of the underworld.

• Persephone was abducted by Hades.

• Persephone is known as a goddess of vegetation.

• The same way in our India we also find the myth of Rama. Who was the seventh avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu and a king of Ayodhya in Hindu scriptures. Rama is also the protagonist of the Hindu epic ‘Ramayana’.

• He fight with Ravana and save his wife Sita’s life.

• These are the examples of different Myths in the different culture.

• Sometimes people follow myth because of apprehensions, because of fear. Here are some examples of Indian Myth:

• If the women will not make a kum-kum Mark on their forehead and will not wear bangles in their hands then something bad will happen with their husbands.

• The same way, we will find in the novel that widow women were not allowed to come in the market. And especially at that time when any kind of good rituals are celebrating by the villagers.

• The characters like Rangamma and Ratna but this is different thing that they reject all this norms of the society.

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