Thursday, February 12, 2015

Notes and questions on Siddartha

Is the beginning a dream?
Where does this take place?
Why are the rhetorical questions significant?
Theme: inner transformation, moving on

Brahmin: highest class in India
He was finding himself and discovering himself. Asking questions and his dad didn't like it because he was a Brahmin.

"Standing still as snake was in his path" was repeated. Snake symbolizes evil and deceitfulness.

Shaking off old identity and becoming himself is sort of the same as a snake when they shed their skin

Tone: overwhelmed.  With the questions he evoked but it changes once he starts looking forward and 

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