WRITING ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH
Katha Upanishad qualifies as an allegory. In the story they use death as a character. Also how Nachiketa symbolizes what’s best about being a teenager. I’m going to explain how these two examples are proof that Katha Upanishad qualifies as an allegory.
First, they use death as a character. In real life death isn’t a character but since this is an allegory death is a character. They call death Yama and Nachiketa goes and visits him to ask him questions about death. Yama wasn’t home but Nachiketa waited for 3 days and so Yama finally came. Nachiketa tells him that it’s rude to not give a visitor good service, Yama says it’s true and Nachiketa tells him that he owes him 3 favors and he asks for two already and the last one he asks what happens after you die and Yama at first didn’t want to answer him and then at last he tells him.
Lastly, Nachiketa symbolizes what’s best about being a teenager. In reality teenagers would rather have hot girls all kinds of money etc. but Nachiketa doesn’t he would give up all of that just to find out the answer he is looking for. Yama literally offered him anything he thought he would want because he’s a teenager but Nachiketa denied all that because he only wanted one thing and that was to find out his question he had.
In conclusion, these two examples are proof that Katha Upanishad is an allegory because they use death as a character and how Nachiketa symbolizes what’s best about being a teenager.
First, they use death as a character. In real life death isn’t a character but since this is an allegory death is a character. They call death Yama and Nachiketa goes and visits him to ask him questions about death. Yama wasn’t home but Nachiketa waited for 3 days and so Yama finally came. Nachiketa tells him that it’s rude to not give a visitor good service, Yama says it’s true and Nachiketa tells him that he owes him 3 favors and he asks for two already and the last one he asks what happens after you die and Yama at first didn’t want to answer him and then at last he tells him.
Lastly, Nachiketa symbolizes what’s best about being a teenager. In reality teenagers would rather have hot girls all kinds of money etc. but Nachiketa doesn’t he would give up all of that just to find out the answer he is looking for. Yama literally offered him anything he thought he would want because he’s a teenager but Nachiketa denied all that because he only wanted one thing and that was to find out his question he had.
In conclusion, these two examples are proof that Katha Upanishad is an allegory because they use death as a character and how Nachiketa symbolizes what’s best about being a teenager.
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