Overcoming Misfortunes in Siddhartha :: Hesse Siddhartha Essays

Overcoming Misfortunes in Siddhartha           On page 132 we read Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the aforesaid(prenominal) sorrows were undergone. What does this mean in regards to Siddhartha and any other of the characters in Hesses story? Do you agree with this statement? Explain.         This quote is interpreted from the context of when Siddhartha is crossing the river and he sees his reflection and it looks like his father. This quote refers to a echoing of events. It is illustrated by brahman being separated from Siddhartha and Siddhartha being separated from his own son. This parallels the quote in three ways. Taken literally it identifies the father-like-son aspect of the situation. It can be taken as a metaphor for the endlessness of succession as well. Taken show up of context, this quote identifies that anything that is not followed or completely work ed through will reside to exist and it will repeat itself.         Siddhartha left his father, Brahmin, at a materialisation age to join the ascetics. Siddhartha is now considering the pain his father must sire gone through not seeing his son again. Siddharthas son, too, was separated from his father. Without dealing with this situation, the distance between father and son would never be reconciled. and then the situation Siddhartha had with Brahmin would be repeated.         The quote can also be interpreted as a metaphor for time. Obvious recurrences can be noted in time, suggesting that time repeats itself. Instead of a river, another emblem can be used for time, perhaps a pool. According to this quote, things repeat themselves in time. In a pool objects float around until they finally make their way to the outlet. Events swirling around in time without reconciliation be trapped until they are dealt with. The entir e pool makes up all that time is. All the experiences and thoughts of past, present, and future that have not been dismissed all moderate to the whole of time.         If the quote stood alone, without the context of Siddharthas reflections on his father and his son, it would state that anything that isnt terminate through completion would forever hang in the cloud of time.