Siddhartha Essays

“Setting is a powerful vehicle of thematic concerns; in fact, it is one of the most powerful”. Using the two books, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Siddhartha, by Mark Twain and Herman Hesse respectively, I can proudly state that to a very huge extent, this statement proves true for …

The spiritual ideas of Buddhism and Hinduism are very interesting but often hard to grasp. In the novel Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, these ideas are the basis for many likes and dislikes. It is a story about a young Hindu boy who rejects the beliefs of everyone he knows and …

What is the meaning of a hero in a story? A story would never be a satisfactory story without a hero, and without a journey a hero would never be existed. In every story, there’s a meaning to the journey of the hero. The meaning of the journey can be …