Comparing Werner And Siddhartha

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse discusses the many paths of teaching that relate to Hinduism that Siddhartha followed on his journey through life and how each path helped him realize what he wanted with his life. Siddhartha follows many teachings or paths in which to reach his spiritual destination, which at the beginning was to reach Nirvana.

    In Hesse's novel, Siddhartha the title character, Siddhartha leaves the Brahmins in search of Nirvana - spiritual peace.  The journey he endures focuses on two main goals - to find peace and the right path (http://www.ic.ucsb.edu/~ggotts/hesse/life/jennifer/html).  Joseph Mileck, the author of Hermann Hesse:  Life and Art, asserts that Siddhartha focuses on a sense of unity developed through Siddhartha's mind, body, and soul (Baumer).  Hesse's Siddhartha revolves around three central journeys - a physical, a mental, and a spiritual journey.

“What could I say to you that would be of value except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.” (113) Siddhartha, a book written by Hermann Hesse, is about this young boy who throughout the book grows to an old man who, throughout his journey, seeks to attain enlightenment. He comes from a Brahmin family and later decides to become a samana and lives in the woods with his “shadow”,Govinda. Siddhartha is distracted with obstacles throughout his life and ultimately finds a way to conquer them.

Siddhartha, written by Herman Heese, is a book about a man’s journey to find his inner self beginning when he is young and ending when he is of old age. Siddhartha, while on this quest, searched for different mentors to teach him what they know, hoping to find truth and balance in and of the universe. At the end of the novel, Siddhartha reaches the enlightenment through many teachings.

Siddhartha comes to realize that he has discovered who he really is, he is Siddhartha. He knows himself more than any other teaching or religion. As he comes to self-realization, he comprehends he has been letting himself slip away, he has been running away from himself.

Every teenager and young adult wants, at least to some degree, to go out and discover themselves. For some people, that means going on extreme adventures of self-discovery. Two such men that go on these types of adventures are Siddhartha and Chris McCandless (aka Alexander Supertramp). While one is fictional and one entirely real, their stories are both very eye opening when it comes to the topic of really living and finding yourself, and the way that these two men did so was both very different, yet very much alike. They are very similar in the way that nature had a very, very important role in both of their lives, as well as in the way that both of their emotional/mental states were not always one hundred percent stable. However, the fact that McCandless had a very inadequate upbringing and had a negative reaction to social life compared to urban life, while Siddhartha had a very commendable upbringing and did not hate society with a burning passion, really shows how different these two men really were.

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse is a classic novel and gives some insight to those seeking enlightenment or even just the spiritual understanding of a Buddhist. Siddhartha, the protagonist of this novel, is in search for enlightenment and does so with his friend, Govinda. Along his path to enlightenment, he learns many important lessons varying from guidance and distractions to love. All of these played a key role in his pursuit of enlightenment.

Then, Kamala becomes his lover and began to teach him about the world of love. Siddhartha after years became a rich man that enjoys life in the material world. Soon he enters a cycle of unhappiness and tries to escape it. Siddhartha had a dream about Kamala’s songbird dead in its cage, and then he makes a resolve and leaves it all behind without notifying anyone. He went to the river to seek the ferryman, who name is Vasudeva and ask to learn from the river to obtain enlightenment. Kamala appears one day with her son to cross but she was bitten by a snake. She tells Siddhartha about his son before she died. Siddhartha tries to make it up to him but his son ran away in the morning. After that, he continues learning from the river and finally achieves enlightenment, this is the climax. The resolution is that Siddhartha meet Govinda and helps him obtain enlightenment. Flashback shows how the event or situation happens. Foreshadowing predicts what happen later in the novel. Both in the beginning and end, Siddhartha and Govinda are together. In the beginning, they don’t have enlightenment while in the

All of the metamorphosis that Siddhartha is going though are not clearly portrayed in the movie, leaving the audience clueless to what inside Siddhartha is changing though his journey to self enlightenment. In movies, unless it is narrated by the main character, it is hard to portray exact thoughts of a character, how they feel about things, and what they’re thinking. In an intellectual book like Siddhartha thoughts are very important, especially that thought plays such an important part in Siddhartha’s travel in enlightenment, in the movie, his thoughts are hardly conveyed to the audience. We don't get to hear all of the different mindsets that Siddhartha is going through, on his path to enlightenment. We get the physical appearances, and can make inferences, but it can only go so far. The book gave so much more insight to how Siddhartha was morphing through his stages of life, until he finally reaches

There are three stages in the Monomyth; Separation, Struggle or Initiation, then Return and Reintegration. The narrator of the essay, Paul D’Angelo, went through all three stages.

There is a time in all religious experiences that people look for spiritual growth by reflecting on the basics of life. An estimated 376 million people are considered to believe and follow Buddhist practices, the question of the four elements (sight’s), aging people, the sick, funerals processions and religion. These elements that Siddhartha Gautama saw, that led to him to seek religious enlightenment, and to give up his privileged life. These four elements come up in every religious walk at some point. Reflection on these elements can have astonishing effects in someone’s life. By looking at these elements, and by showing the effect they had on Siddhartha Gautama’s life, will show that anyone could grow in their spiritual belief by reflecting

“He looked around him as if seeing the world for the first time. The world was beautiful, strange and mysterious . . . and in the midst of it all, he, Siddhartha, the awakened one, on the way to himself” (Hesse 32). Siddhartha, written by Hermann Hesse in 1922, focuses on the awakening of the titular character, who is on a path to find himself. The novel focuses on his pursuit of attaining enlightenment through finding Nirvana, the balance between asceticism and hedonism. He experiences the extremes of both asceticism and hedonism in order to find balance between the two. Throughout Siddhartha’s spiritual journey, he comes across multiple teachers, including the Samanas, Kamala, Young Siddhartha, Vasudeva, and the river, who teach him

In the departure phase of his journey, Siddhartha completely shuns both internal and external desires and lives a more than humble life. During Siddhartha’s conversation with his father about leaving home, Siddhartha’s father, “returned again after an hour and again after two hours, looked through the window and saw Siddhartha standing there in the moonlight, in the starlight, in the dark” (11). Hermann Hesse’s use of dark and light imagery, emphasizes Siddhartha’s stubbornness for his desire to go with the Samanas, whose religious ideals are severe self discipline and restraint of all indulgence; he is adamant about leaving home, as his father checked on him countlessly and Siddhartha stood there unwavering despite the many hours and change of daylight so he could earn his father’s blessing to live the lifestyle of an ascetic. Furthermore, Siddhartha travels to the Samanas with Govinda to destroy Self and the multitudinous amount of desire by quelling each desire and all together Self even though he knows it is a difficult goal to achieve, “Although Siddhartha fled from Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable” (16). The effect of Siddhartha’s multiple attempted destructions of Self as a consequence of living as a Samana are failure in his attempt to discover Nirvana. Moreover, Siddhartha travels with Govinda to the Buddha after leaving the

Siddhartha, the novel, by Herman Hesse explores the journey of two young men on the path to achieving enlightenment. Siddhartha is a young man who puts his friends and family aside to go on a quest to achieve enlightenment. Govinda is Siddhartha’s best friend and he follows him around on his quest while trying to achieve enlightenment himself. Although Siddhartha and Govinda search for different things in different ways, they ultimately find themselves in the same place, revealing Hesse’s belief that there are different ways to accomplish similar goals.

There are many novels written with different experiences included into each one making them unique, but when one breaks down the novels one can realize how there may be different adventures, but there really is only one story. Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth cycle is used to compare stories and outline how similar two different novels can be; in Hesse’s Siddhartha and Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, the three main stages of the monomyth cycle and different themes throughout the novel really pull the stories together; it shows the characters’ journeys to find who they are and what they stand for play a role in how there’s truly only one story. In Hesse’s Siddhartha and Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, the two heroes, Siddhartha