Suffering is the reason people want to live, and the reason they don't. Suffering both plagues and aides Siddhartha as he goes through his journey of life in Herman Hesse's novel.
Suffering is the reason people want to live, and the reason they don't. Suffering both plagues and aides Siddhartha as he goes through his journey of life in Herman Hesse's novel. Siddhartha experiences many sorts of suffering, the main ones being love, finding himself, and temptation. He suffers so much with love, but it doesn't end there for him. He goes through great struggle to find himself, which is delayed by his desire and temptation. Through all this suffering is how Siddhartha eventually reaches enlightenment.
At the beginning of the book, Siddhartha suffers with finding himself. This is the reason he leaves home, as he is unsatisfied with his Bromhin life. He leaves his family to set out to find a life that suits him, so that he may find himself. "Where did his eternal heart lie beating? Where else but within oneself, in the innermost indestructible core each man carries inside him. But where, where was this Self, this innermost, utmost thing?"(Hesse 5). Siddhartha is very unsettled with the fact he does not know himself, who he is. This is when he realizes he must take a journey, and have life experiences in order to find himself. He longs for peace within himself, to be settled at heart. "He longed to be rid of himself, to find peace, to be dead." (Hesse 73). Siddhartha cannot stand being in this situation of
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