Hesse's Siddhartha: Siddhartha's Character

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follow another path in life, a path
that would show him another part of how people in his world lived.
Siddhartha did not allow himself to stick to something that he could not
feel to be right, thus he could not stay and worship the gods his father
worshipped. He, as discontent people long for, set out to search for the
internal happiness that he had not redeemed yet.
As Siddhartha wandered through his multiple phases in life, he
learned overwhelming aspects. He seemed so above the common people, yet he
discovered that he became more and more like them. He too had
uncontrollable feelings of emptiness. The next life that Siddhartha
embarked on was his life with the Samanas. In those years, he learned to
try to control himself, and he learned to feel spite towards materialistic
people. He was given a different view of life, but he still was
discontented. He felt he had learned enough of spiritual discipline and
again changed his path in life.
Siddhartha had ...

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