Does the story of Siddhartha's adventure fit into Joseph Campbell's hero's journey?
In the book “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse the main character has a journey that mirrors the hero's journey through the uses of, mentors, the abyss, an atonement. Throughout the novel siddhartha has mentors that come and go, but the wisest of all his mentors was a old river man named Vasudeva. Vasudeva was the one that taught siddhartha to listen to the river and helped him work through a lot of his problem with the use of the river. “ The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it.” (Page 105). Though Vasudeva was a wise mentor, another mentor that taught siddhartha a lot of wisdom was Kamalla. Kamalla taught siddhartha a different kind of wisdom,
In the book “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse the main character has a journey that mirrors the hero's journey through the uses of, mentors, the abyss, an atonement. Throughout the novel siddhartha has mentors that come and go, but the wisest of all his mentors was a old river man named Vasudeva. Vasudeva was the one that taught siddhartha to listen to the river and helped him work through a lot of his problem with the use of the river. “ The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it.” (Page 105). Though Vasudeva was a wise mentor, another mentor that taught siddhartha a lot of wisdom was Kamalla. Kamalla taught siddhartha a different kind of wisdom,