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    The Past Will Always Stay With You Siddhartha written by Herman Hesse is an inspiring novel about a young Indian’s travels to achieve his goal. Siddhartha’s previous learning affects him in both positive and negative aspects on his long journey to reach enlightenment. Enlightenment in the Indian culture means to reach total knowledge on life and the afterlife. Siddhartha’s journey as a Brahmin‚ a Samana‚ being rich and greedy‚ and living in the hut as a river man brought him great wisdom and

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    Viewing Siddhartha Everyone has a few personality traits that is what makes a person an individual. The character Siddhartha can be described in many different ways. Siddhartha has several different personality traits which are good looks‚ curiosity‚ determination‚ adventurous‚ cleverness‚ Brahmins background and independence. Siddhartha was very slender and very good looking. Hermann Hesse states in the book Siddhartha that “Love stirred in the hearts of the young Brahmins’ daughter

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    memories. In the novel‚ Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse‚ Siddhartha goes through a number of different experiences as well as searching high and low to find the meaning of his existence‚ the meaning of life‚ and the meaning of communication. Throughout the novel‚ Siddhartha encounters a lot of trials and temptations that leave him questioning and searching for meanings of why he went through what he went through and what will happen in the near future. One thing that Siddhartha uses to try and find

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    Lana Walker David Gillette English 18 April 2014m Finding Enlightenment In Siddhartha‚ by Herman Hesse‚ a young boy named Siddhartha leaves home in order to pursue Nirvana. Siddhartha’s understanding of Nirvana is that it is the highest enlightenment‚ when one frees oneself from the cycle of Samsara. Siddhartha searches for teachers that will help him attain Nirvana‚ but after his many attempts at reaching a complete understanding fail‚ he chooses to stop forcing himself to reach enlightenment by

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    Kigerl  Hum 1001 Siddhartha Novel by: Herman Hesse 2. Analyze the novel Siddhartha in relation to author‚ Hermann Hesse’s personal philosophical background. You will be looking at philosophers whom Hesse followed such as Nietzsche and will explore how they may have influenced his writing of Siddhartha.  If you choose this option: KNOW you must quote from Siddhartha and one other source related to Hesse’s philosophical background. Both would be listed in your Works Cited. Siddhartha is a novel by

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    "Siddhartha" is one of the names of the historical Gautama‚ and the life of Hesse’s character resembles that of his historical counterpart to some extent. Siddhartha is by no means a fictional life of Buddha‚ but it does contain numerous references to Buddha’s philosophies and his teachings. Although Hesse’s Siddhartha is not intended to portray the life of Gautama the Buddha but he used the name and many other attributed to reflect the legendary atmosphere and the pattern of his heroes transformation

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    “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and “Odyssey” are related to each other in many ways. “The Epic of Gilgamesh” has an unknown author and was written in 1300 BC. The story is about the adventure that Gilgamesh endures on his search to find immortality. “Odyssey” was written in 800 BCE and the author is Homer. “Odyssey is a story about a man named Odysseus and the tests he endures to get home after the Trojan war separates him from his family‚ because the difficulties he encounters he does not make it home

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    Siddhartha Assignment #1 Option 3c: “I have always thirsted for knowledge‚ I have always been full of questions. Year after year I have questioned the Brahmins‚ year after year I have questioned the holy Vedas. Perhaps…it would have been equally good‚ equally clever and holy if I had questioned the rhinoceros or the chimpanzee. I have spent a long time and have not yet finished in order to learn this…that one can learn nothing.” When I first read this (very‚ very late at night of course…) I was

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    In the book Siddhartha‚ he compares meditation to the consumption of alcohol. These two surprisingly have a very similar effect on your state of mind‚ they take you away from the "real world". While they are similar in that way they are also very different. There are up’s and down’s to both of these states of mind. Alcohol can be very dangerous and unhealthy to your body. And meditation is a long process of things you do to yourself when there are alternatives‚ such as alcohol and drugs. Main negative

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    individual is labeled as different‚ often times because that person is perceived as being an outsider. Also‚ both individuals and groups are subject to this labeling. However‚ otherness rarely stands alone in literature. Particularly‚ in The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ The Tempest‚ and Heart of Darkness‚ otherness overlaps with the theme of identity.

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