Romain Rolland

Siddhartha’s Growth Through the Stages of Grief “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. People can only be happy when they have experienced sadness. Just like…

The novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, tells the spiritual journey of a boy named Siddhartha and how he ultimately achieves true enlightenment within himself. As the novel is structured primarily around Siddhartha’s inner spiritual struggle, the moment that he deters from his path physically by entering the alluring material world is a huge event within the novel as his pain and thoughts of hopelessness are not confined within the mind but rather dangerously externalized. This deviation itself…

Siddhartha Literary Essay “I can think. I can wait. I can fast.” This quote was said by Siddhartha while on his journey towards enlightenment; which contains numerous complexities and tells about different experiences he had to go through in order to become a better person. Over the course of this story, Siddhartha matures and becomes a much stronger human being. In the beginning, Siddhartha decides he wants more in life. Although he has mastered the knowledge of his religion and practices at…

Siddhartha Siddhartha is a novel written by Hermann Hesse that is organized in two parts called "The Brahmin's Son" and "Kamala." "The Brahmin's Son" has 4 chapters as "Kamala" has 8. Each parts have several chapters titled after a certain event in Siddhartha's life in chronological order. The story initially has young Siddhartha in his village located in ancient India. He is presented as affable and handsome young boy who is expected to follow in his father's footsteps as a well-respected…

In Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, the hero, Siddhartha, perseveres through a wearisome mission for Nirvana. All his life. Siddhartha does not feel satisfied and wishes to enter Maya to wind up distinctly one with his Atman. He trusts that edification must be achieved through involvement, instead of through the expressions of others. Hesse proposes that information is transferable, yet intelligence must be picked up as a matter of fact. Hesse passes on this message through non-literal dialect, foils,…

INTRODUCTION In the history of human evolution, art is an indispensable item, whether it is from prehistoric times to the present 21st century. Whether period or modern apes, humans are inseparable and art. Can be found everywhere in life is not the same art, perhaps a modern or perhaps handed down from ancient times. In modern times, art history has become a discipline dedicated to teaching people how to assess and explain the basis of the works of art on their own perspective. Through a…

themes of women and their beauty, the seamstress likes the philosophical side of the novel, making it interesting for all audiences. After stealing Four­Eyes’ suitcase, the boys get the opportunity to read another novel called Jean­Christophe by Romain Rolland. This book ended up being the narrator’s favorite, as…

The Chinese Cultural Revolution in the mid 19th century brought a forced wave of reverting to traditional values, resulting in “approximately 12 million” (Allen “Dai”) people to be forced into villages. Because of the repetition aspect of history, many writers have written about concepts and ideas that people who are currently suffering will relate to. When writing about issues, authors tend to allude to other literature works. Relying on other authors to help explain characters’ desires or…

Swami Vivekananda who, in words of Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble his Irish devoted disciple), breathed India. He was a personality of multiple facets – a thinker, a philosopher, a saint, a preacher, a leader, a reformer and so on. Very few people know him as a Poet. The English poetry in India brought by the ending years of the nineteenth century has chiefly taken the form of a revival of cultural patriotism, highly necessary for a nation. It also has religious impact on it in the…

4. Representations of Gandhi For nearly six decades, Gandhi has been a recurring figure in diverse mediums all over the world. Whether it’s a new biography or a modern take on Gandhi’s philosophies, the Gandhian tradition has been kept alive in not just literature, but in almost all art forms. However, it creates an interesting but a paradoxical situation; during his lifetime Gandhi was likened to other eminent figures like Lenin, Tolstoy and even Jesus Christ. Soon after his death a discourse…