In the seemingly constant desire to achieve the ideal of Hesse, overheating is laid, as a result of which the main character instead of spiritual searches indulges in a worldly fuss. Hesse endowed the protagonist with his worldview, which even Buddha cannot influence.

It is critical to note that indeed – he devotes his thoughts to his whole life, which cannot be said about the people around him. For instance, the main character says: “The sinner, which I am and which you are, is a sinner, but in times to come he will be Brahma again, he will reach the Nirvana, will be Buddha-and now see: these “times to come” are a deception, are only a parable!” (Hesse 149). The story clearly outlines that he is highly patient, smart, and he is used to severe hardship. This is a young man who decided to go in search of his “I” because he wished to know the essence of the world and acquire wisdom. The main character of the given adventure and self-discovery story is Siddhartha.

The work is not religious literature, no, but it contains many references relevant to this topic. However, the Germans preferred to indulge in human passions and sorrows than to delve into an alien religion – Buddhism. After all, everything that surrounds people is all of them, and this is a series of reincarnations called Samsara. Hate turned out to be cruel, and in the meantime, a writer like Hesse preached in his book the love of everything. After this war, they felt unfairly humiliated and decided to take revenge, which happened a few years later. The work was written in 1922 in Germany just after the First World War, which brought a lot of trouble to the Germans.

Siddhartha by hermann hesse