“I have never seen a man look and smile‚ sit and walk like that‚ he thought. I‚ also‚ would like to look and smile‚ sit and walk like that‚ so free‚ so worthy‚ so restrained‚ so candid‚ so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.” (Siddhartha pg.35) Siddhartha’s goal throughout this book is to conquer himself and become one with nature. This path takes him from living rich like a king to being humbled as a poor river
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Happiness and the Good Life for Siddhartha The good life for Siddhartha is happiness. Siddhartha is able to live the good life by finding happiness as described by Richard Taylor in the chapter “Happiness”. In his chapter “Happiness” from An Introduction to Virtue Ethics‚ Richard Taylor discusses things that can confused with happiness and says that “happiness is a kind of fulfillment” (“Happiness”). Siddhartha’s main goal is to be happy by fulfilling his longing to find his inner self or Atman
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Demian is more didactic‚ explanative and may even remote to a priest’s sermon in the sense that it wishes to inform the audience about a topic related to morals and show a different perspective of the world; in Siddhartha‚ the tone is reverent towards Kamala and objective towards events in life. When Hesse writes Demian using the first person and addressing the world and people outside of the book‚ his text becomes like the transcription of a speech‚ which changes the audience’s interaction with the text
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The Indian English novel evolved as a subaltern consciousness; as a reaction to break away from the colonial literature. Hence the post colonial literature in India witnessed a revolution against the idiom which the colonial writers followed. Gradually the Indian English authors began employing the techniques of hybrid language‚ magic realism peppered with native themes. Thus from a post colonial era Indian literature ushered into the modern and then the post-modern era. The saga of the Indian English
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Aunt Jennifers Tigers Poem Summary by Admin on November 11‚ 2012 in English Aunt Jennifer’s tigers is a poem by Adrienne Rich illustrating her feminist concerns. In the male dominant world‚ a women of her time was only supposed to be a dutiful homemaker. This poem through the world of Aunty Jennifer‚ tells us about her inner desire to free herself from the clutches of abusive marriage and patriarchal society. Poem Summary The first stanza opens with Aunt Jennifer’s visual tapestry of tigers who
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My grandmother Kamala‚ is a woman of true respect. She grew up in the Kirthabra moutains‚ bordering Karachi and proclaiming it the most beautiful place in the world that “overlooked the heavens”. She grew as people would call “blue blooded”‚ ridiculously rich but far from conceited. Her family consisted complete vegetarians- never eating meat or eggs as if to preserve what bodies are given. She had five brothers and she was the eldest child. My grandfather Bhagwan was similar‚ yet completely different
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the only Indian Prime Minister to have been imprisoned after holding that office. Indira Gandhi was born Indira Nehru on November 19‚ 1917 into the politically influential Nehru Family. Indira Gandhi’s father was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mother was Kamala Nehru. Indira gained the surname "Gandhi" by her marriage to Feroze Gandhi. She had no relation to Mahatma Gandhi‚ either by blood or marriage. Her grandfather‚ Motilal Nehru‚ was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father‚ Jawaharlal Nehru
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SEX TOURISM According to the definition of the World Trade Organization (WTO)‚ sex tourism refers to organized trips‚ within or outside the tourist industry‚ to engage in a commercial sexual relationship. Sex tourism can be domestic or international‚ involving cross-border trips for the same purpose. United Nations‚ defines sex tourism as "trips organized from within the tourism sector‚ or from outside this sector but using its structures and networks‚ with the primary purpose of effecting a commercial
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is a Keatsian sensuousness in Deshpande’s poetry which shows the poet’s rapturous love of colours and perfumes. But the themes which are recurrent and dominant in her poetry are isolation and lost love. Many of these poems show how Deshpande‚ like Kamala Das‚ writes in an unin¬hibited way but as Eunice de Souza has observed‚ there is in her poetry “a great deal about blood and sweat and clenched teeth‚ and about “lashing” and “throbbing”‚ the final effect for the reader is not one of intensity but
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In Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse‚ the preference of experience over teaching is demonstrated through the usage of characterization and symbolism‚ persuading readers to not seek teachings‚ but rather to derive wisdom through personal experience. Hesse uses characterization to reveal traits and wisdoms that the characters derive from teachings and experiences. If we are to be taught about somebody else’s experience‚ we may understand the general situation‚ but we will never understand the emotions behind
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