Assignment 1-4-6 Written Analyses

                                 Assignment 1-4-6

My topic was about “people opinion on wearing Rakchya Bandhan (Rakhi)”. After going through this topic, I got opportunity to explore in different aspect which is associated with the topic. I got opportunities to learn various aspects of popular culture and correlate the topic with the theories like Myths, Icons, Ritual and Stereotypes. This theory helps us to get more information and helps us to understand the surrounding where we live our life. For my topic the theories like popular belief, myths and ritual are very mush related.

 After going through the theories, I found my topic very interesting to learn fact and able to do research. My topic is related with religious belief and the cultural values which is practice in between the brother and sister if the Hindu culture. Rakhi has the popular belief that on wearing it, the life of the brother and sister has long life by seeking blessing from the god and goddesses. It also has the popular myth that after wearing it ht brother and sister will hold everlasting life. People’s opinion about wearing Rakhi is related to belief towards their religion, culture and god.  Before starting this topic I use to ignore these theories but after going through this course I was able to analysis the topic by the theories. After analysis on the topic I found that all the theories were very much informative and essential for us. I feell I am lucky that I was able to learn the popular belief and myth where I was able to share my feeling. I fell so much happy to share my feeling through these theories. Heroes, cult of celebrity, stereotype etc are the more interesting finding for my analyses.

Before I start this course, I use to take this type of topic very lightly in a simple way because I was new to different aspect of viewing the thing in different way. But after covering this topic, I realized that the words are delicate and challenging to proof the valuable imminent. Now I started to see the popular culture from different dimension and also able to find different hidden aspect of my topic. I was clear about the myth, beliefs, stereotypes, Heroes and cult of the celebrity. Finally, I am able to find the impact caused by popular culture and the society.