Final Siddhartha Comments

Your task this week is to make a comment in response to the comments of one of your classmates. Choose one person's ideas from either post to discuss in your post. You may agree with him/her, disagree , or extend the idea your classmate began. Please refer to specific points in the post within your discussion and relate those points to your own interpretation of the book.

Siddhartha Part Two

Answer one of the following questions:
Discuss this quote: “He was sometimes afraid of these thoughts and wished he
could also share their childish daily affairs with intensity, truly to take part in them,
to enjoy and live their lives instead of only being there as an onlooker.” (71)

What is love according to Siddhartha? According to Kamala? According to Govinda? What does Hesse seem to be telling us about love?

Discuss this quote: "Samsara and Nirvana are only words."

Siddhartha

Respond to one the following questions:

Chapter 1

Look at the reasons for Siddhartha’s discontentment (5-6). How do other

religions answer these questions?

What is the tone of this chapter and how is the tone relevant to the theme?

Discuss this quote: “One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must

possess it. Everything else was seeking—a detour, error.”

Chapter 2

 Debate the arguments of Govinda and Siddhartha in this chapter. What are Govinda’s arguments and thesis? What is Siddhartha’s?