Term Papers on Siddhartha

Term Paper Title	Siddhartha
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	4.36

Siddhartha

Siddhartha, the novel by Hermann Hesse is what can be included as one of the epitomes of allegorical literature.  This wondrous novel is focused on the tribulations of Siddhartha through his quest for inner peace.  He started out as a young Brahmin’s son always thirsting for more intellect and perspective in his life and from there on he endured many transitions.  Siddhartha let himself experience all forms of life in his society.  He unhesitatingly learned more about how different people lived by stepping into their shoes.  He gained the vast varieties of intellect and perspective that he had longed for through his diversity, and he shrewdly applied it to compose his accurate philosophies of everyday life.
Siddhartha’s character exemplifies the insatiable feeling that everybody harbors.  He stood for a unity of individuals.  He stood for their thirst, and most importantly he stood for their ultimate quench; He stood for the insatiable feelings that all people have and need to eventually fill.

As the Brahmin’s son, Siddhartha could not contain himself.  He was restless and felt that he had learned all he had to learn amongst his elders, and he was right.  He chose to follow another path in life, a path that would show him another part of how people in his world lived.  Siddhartha did not allow himself to stick to something that he could not feel to be right, thus he could not stay and worship the gods his father worshipped. He, as discontent people long for, set out to search for the internal happiness that he had not redeemed yet.

As Siddhartha wandered through his multiple phases in life, he learned overwhelming aspects.  He seemed so above the common people, yet he discovered that he became more and more like them.  He too had uncontrollable feelings of emptiness.  The next life that Siddhartha embarked on was his life with the Samanas.  In those years, he learned to try to control himself, and he learned to feel spite towards materialistic people.  He was given a different view of life, but he still was discontented.  He felt he had learned enough of  spiritual discipline and again changed his path in life.

Siddhartha had heard of the Great Buddha as if he was a true and worthy idol.  He set out to learn his teachings with total anxiety, but he soon learned that it was not what he wanted to pursue.  “You have learned nothing through teachings, and so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation though teachings...(p27)”
“That is why I am going on my way-not to seek another and better doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and reach my goal alone-or die.”(p28)

The next step in Siddhartha’s discovery was becoming a free man.  He wandered into a town as opposed to the forest he had dwelled in for many years and faced the corruptions of the town life.  First he experienced immense lust, then he tasted greed and felt hate which ultimately brought him back to feeling lost.  “His heart was so full of misery, he felt the could no longer endure it.  He was full of a na...

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