The book "Siddhartha"conveys a lot of subtle messages: in depth analysis and a thorough character analysis of Siddhartha.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:46:30
Category: / Society & Culture / Environment
Length: 4 pages (1152 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Environment
Length: 4 pages (1152 words)
The book "Siddhartha" subtly conveys a lot of subtle messages. In the following paper I seek to analyze the book in depth and simultaneously do a thorough character analysis of Siddhartha.
Siddhartha was written by Hermann Hesse in 1922.Siddhatha is the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate enlightenment after realizing that he is not happy as a Brahmin. He is in search of enlightenment and undertakes the path of Buddhism even though originally …
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…which taught him what he needed to know. An important moral that Hesse is trying to convey to us is that only through sacrifice will someone acquire what they are looking for. Siddhartha sacrificed his family his worldly goods, Kamala the one girl he truly loved, sacrificed the teachings of the great Buddha but finally took shelter in the river and its experience where he found Nirvana. He finds his Inner Self and inner peace.
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