An Analysis Of Siddhartha's Heroic Journey
Siddhartha’s Heroic Journey
Does the story of Siddhartha's adventure fit into Joseph Campbell's hero's journey?
In the book “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse the main character has a journey that mirrors the hero's journey through the uses of, mentors, the abyss, an atonement. Throughout the novel Siddhartha has mentors that come and go, but the wisest of all his mentors was an old river man named Vasudeva. Vasudeva was the one that taught Siddhartha to listen to the river and helped him work through a lot of his problems with the use of the river. “ The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it.” (Page 105). Though Vasudeva was a wise mentor, another mentor that taught Siddhartha a lot of wisdom was Kamalla. Kamalla taught …show more content…
Sidhartha hit a low point after all the gambling that he had been doing. He had a representative dream about Kamala's songbird dying, and Siddhartha took that dream as sign. he was unhappy and ran off without telling anyone. he ended up in the river and he began to contemplate suicide.“He bent down with closed eyes-towards death.” (Page 89). This example is one of the many abyss points in the novel. The third reason this novel follows the hero's journey is the atonement that happens. The atonement happens between Siddhartha and his son. Siddharth learns that he needs to let his son go just as his father did to him. “His face resembled that of another person.... It resembled the face of his father, the Brahmin. He remembered how once, as a youth, he had compelled his father to let him go and join the ascetic, how he had taken leave of him, how he had gone and never returned.” (Page 131-132) When young Siddhartha runs away, Siddhartha goes and looks for him. he sees the river laugh at him and he realises he is similar to his dad and needs to let his son go. this makes up siddhartha's atonement for relating to his father. In conclusion the novel siddhartha closely relates to the hero's journey by the use of meteors, abyss, and the atonement. These points are only the few of many points of the hero's journey. Siddhartha's journey is as heroic as the hero's
Does the story of Siddhartha's adventure fit into Joseph Campbell's hero's journey?
In the book “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse the main character has a journey that mirrors the hero's journey through the uses of, mentors, the abyss, an atonement. Throughout the novel Siddhartha has mentors that come and go, but the wisest of all his mentors was an old river man named Vasudeva. Vasudeva was the one that taught Siddhartha to listen to the river and helped him work through a lot of his problems with the use of the river. “ The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it.” (Page 105). Though Vasudeva was a wise mentor, another mentor that taught Siddhartha a lot of wisdom was Kamalla. Kamalla taught …show more content…
Sidhartha hit a low point after all the gambling that he had been doing. He had a representative dream about Kamala's songbird dying, and Siddhartha took that dream as sign. he was unhappy and ran off without telling anyone. he ended up in the river and he began to contemplate suicide.“He bent down with closed eyes-towards death.” (Page 89). This example is one of the many abyss points in the novel. The third reason this novel follows the hero's journey is the atonement that happens. The atonement happens between Siddhartha and his son. Siddharth learns that he needs to let his son go just as his father did to him. “His face resembled that of another person.... It resembled the face of his father, the Brahmin. He remembered how once, as a youth, he had compelled his father to let him go and join the ascetic, how he had taken leave of him, how he had gone and never returned.” (Page 131-132) When young Siddhartha runs away, Siddhartha goes and looks for him. he sees the river laugh at him and he realises he is similar to his dad and needs to let his son go. this makes up siddhartha's atonement for relating to his father. In conclusion the novel siddhartha closely relates to the hero's journey by the use of meteors, abyss, and the atonement. These points are only the few of many points of the hero's journey. Siddhartha's journey is as heroic as the hero's