Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Siddhartha Notes from Class Discussion

He was homeless for years 
A Brahmin (most religious in India and are thought highly of) of high standing, a religious man
He felt very alone, did not know where he belonged in life
He began to think about these things and moved on. He was ready for a new beginning, not looking backwards. He was maturing. Finding who he really was. 
He had grown in a Brahmin lifestyle where he was always expected of so highly and lived under such a high expectations and he wants to get away from that. 
The snake in his path as he stands paralyzed symbolizes the devil/evil. 
Snakes "shed" their skin like he shuffles off his old identify and begins a new one in a new skin. 
Who he's going to be is yet undefined. 
He's no longer looking back to what had prohibited him from being the person he is destined to be. 
The town is overwhelming and stressed because he is suddenly brought upon himself a massive bunch of ideas of who he is and has been and who he should be. 

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