Hesse's Siddhartha: Siddhartha's Character

Part I of Essay
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 fo ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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 hi ....