Essay On Enlightenment In Siddhartha

In the first part of Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, it details the journey that Siddartha goes through with Govinda in their search for Enlightenment. Towards the end of the first part, Siddartha is one step closer to Enlightenment due to his character and view of the world. It is his thoughtfulness and determination to achieve this goal and his shifting view of the world throughout this part that allows him to awaken at the end and realize how he can attain his ultimate goal.
Siddhartha’s character is presented as a thinker who is willing to question all that he knows and explore different ideas in order to achieve Enlightenment. This presents itself in the first chapter of the novel in which Siddhartha poses the thought, “did he live in bliss, was he at peace?” (Hesse 6). He realizes that the teachings of the Brahmins could never fulfill his “thirst” for peace if they could not do so for a Brahmin as pure and wise as his father. By being able to have such thoughts, it reveals his overall character as a determined thinker. Siddhartha is able to look past all his teachings and beliefs that he was raised with and reject them in order to find the method that will best help him attain his goal. He does …show more content…
Due to his thoughtfulness and determination from the beginning, he was able to reject false ideas that would have led him astray from the path towards Enlightenment and allowed him to have an awakening to what the next step is. His shifting views of a world full of bitterness to one of beauty was another key in his step towards Enlightenment by providing him with the knowledge of what teachings were not the path he needed to take. It was his overall character and realization of the world that allowed him to reject false ideas and find his true awakening and path towards his goal, thus helping his quest for the good