Theme Of Enlightenment In Siddhartha
Life is a journey of failures that urges people to strive and try again to succeed. This idea is depicted through Siddhartha’s journey throughout the novel where he is met with continuous failures. It is through these failures in life and all his experiences that he is able to learn and be pushed toward the path of Enlightenment.
Siddhartha’s past experiences are essential for him to reach Enlightenment. By going through these struggles and different paths of life, he gained different outlooks on life and connected them to reveal how everything flows together. “And all of it together, all voices, all goals, all yearnings, all sufferings, all pleasures, all good and evil – the world was everything together” (Hesse 119). From an isolated life with the Samanas to a life full of greed and sin in civilization, these extremes were necessary to give him insight into how these societies …show more content…
It is through these experiences that at the end of the novel give him the final insight that all these societies, despite their differences, are all similar and one. They all strive for a goal and suffer to get them. With the Samanas, he suffered through isolation, hunger and impatience to achieve Enlightenment. In civilization, he suffered through the feeling of unfulfillment, greed, and pleasure to achieve Enlightenment. In both cases he lost himself, which forced him to find himself. In doing so, he left both situations and was reawaken and led down a new path that would eventually lead him to Enlightenment. Without undergoing these failed paths, he would have never felt the need to continue searching for Nirvana and approaching it. From each path he learned something new that was essential to reaching Nirvana. He learned how to experience emotions and pleasures of life and how to think and meditate in order to
Siddhartha’s past experiences are essential for him to reach Enlightenment. By going through these struggles and different paths of life, he gained different outlooks on life and connected them to reveal how everything flows together. “And all of it together, all voices, all goals, all yearnings, all sufferings, all pleasures, all good and evil – the world was everything together” (Hesse 119). From an isolated life with the Samanas to a life full of greed and sin in civilization, these extremes were necessary to give him insight into how these societies …show more content…
It is through these experiences that at the end of the novel give him the final insight that all these societies, despite their differences, are all similar and one. They all strive for a goal and suffer to get them. With the Samanas, he suffered through isolation, hunger and impatience to achieve Enlightenment. In civilization, he suffered through the feeling of unfulfillment, greed, and pleasure to achieve Enlightenment. In both cases he lost himself, which forced him to find himself. In doing so, he left both situations and was reawaken and led down a new path that would eventually lead him to Enlightenment. Without undergoing these failed paths, he would have never felt the need to continue searching for Nirvana and approaching it. From each path he learned something new that was essential to reaching Nirvana. He learned how to experience emotions and pleasures of life and how to think and meditate in order to