The differences are the samurai and knight dress differently. The lowest rank in Japanese feudalism is the merchants and the lowest rank in Europe is the peasants (farmers/ slave). Also, their religion believes are different so that also one reason why their feudal system is different. Last, their art are different from each other base on their religion, beliefs and also geography. In the European and Japan feudalism, they both have a person who have the most power—which is the king (emperor).
Seeing the contrast between how the poor and the rich were treated will give a clearer understanding of how much social class mattered. In chapter 27 when Joe comes to see Pip, he treats Joe in a different manner than before because Joe was now in a lower social class. His feelings about Joe's arrival were "Not with pleasure... I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle." (p. 203).
Most of the new doctrines, which concerned a worldview and values, eventually became organized as religious systems. While many of mankind’s traditional rituals and beliefs have been incorporated into these new religions, I think it was very much a fresh beginning. In the years centering around 500 BCE, great advances in religion, philosophy, science, democracy, and many forms of art - occurred independently and almost simultaneously in China, India, the Middle East, and Greece. Spiritual foundations were laid which humanity still use today. In these times of social upheaval and political turmoil, new elite became the carrier of a new cultural and social order.
According to this ideology, Buddhists think that they should do good deeds and prevent jealous or compete with others. Also, different people have different fate and we cannot change it. If you have a good fate or unlucky people, you have to suffer until you die. This is the cause which makes a large of Vietnamese think they don’t have to spend much time and endeavor to make a better life for themselves and their family. They satisfy with their frugal life and waiting for a next life instead of trying the best to change their life.
Beliefs in reincarnation, karma, and dharma help maintain the caste system. There are four classes or caste that go with this system that are sorted by occupation. Brahmins are the top class in the caste system. These are the priests and intellectuals of a higher education that were the only ones who could read and write therefore were probably the caste of people that generally made up the rules and were the ones who more then likely made the actual caste system, which explains why they are the first ones in the system. The Kshatriyas were the warriors of the society.
The caste system has also been adopted by the South Asian Muslims due to the Hindu converts and close contact with the Hindu culture. The similarities and the differences among these two caste systems will be analyzed throughout this paper. The aim of this paper is to show that the caste system continues to discriminate individuals and isolates them socially within the Indian Subcontinent. Background Information The Hindu Caste System The concept of being born into a “”jaati” does not seem familiar to many of us. The society that we live in, ignores, often rejects this view and does not aim to understand the roots of this social inequality.
The function of these castes is to quantify how close a person was to freeing himself from the cycle of death and rebirth. Being born to a higher caste was an indication that one had lived one's previous lives in a holy manner. Likewise, the higher castes had to be careful to live holy lives themselves, less they regress to a lower caste in the next reincarnation cycle, or even worse, reincarnate as some kind of animal. The highest class is the Brahmans, the priestly class. Their dharma is to study and understand the Vedas, the Hindu's holy texts, and bring this knowledge to others.
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha): “Suffering is in part the result of the transience and hence uncertainty of the world: indeed, all human problems are rooted in the fact of change and the uncertainty, anxiety, and fear that it causes. Suffering is also in part the result of karma.” This quote tells why Buddha started his quest for enlightenment, he wanted to find a way to stop suffering and know why suffering happened to people, Buddha, also wanted to learn how to get past suffering and then teach others so there could be a chance for everyone to live an enlightened life. Lao Tzu: “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” (Lao Tzu Quotes, 2010 )I think this quote sums Lao Tzu up well he was not trying to push his beliefs on anyone, however, when they learned and understood what he meant it was like they thought of it on their own. Chang Tzu: “All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable and those that are ugly as foul and rotten the foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.” (Chuang Tzu Quotes (Zhuangzi Quotes), 2010) I think this quote says a lot about this man and every human alive or dead we all look at things and place a value on them to see if it is something worth keeping or selling to make that all mighty dollar.
To do so, balance has to be reached on every level of existence. Through examination of the different characters lives, an understanding can be gained of how Mistry portrayed the value of balance, and how in most cases was failed to be reached. In India, the Caste system, which was a manor of classifying people by social standings, was very prominent during the time of A Fine Balance. The Caste system worked in the way that you were born into your Caste, which limited you to certain things, depending on which you were born into. This ultimately caused a never-ending cycle of poverty, as people that were born into the lower classes, kept rising in numbers.
Mahavira declared that man can get freedom from the cycle of birth and death by practicing the following principles, namely, Right belief, Right knowledge and Right action. He rejected the authority of Vedas, objected to Vedic rituals and the supremacy of Brahmins. * Impact of Jainism: The main doctrine of Jainism was non-violence or Ahimsa. When the Kshatriyas accepted the faith, they gradually lost their fighting spirit. They became docile and this had a bad impact on the political life.