M. The father said to Siddhartha: “'you will go to the forest and become a shramana. If you find happiness in the forest, come back and teach me happiness. If you find disappointment, then come back and together we will make sacrifices to the gods again. Now go and kiss your mother and tell her where you are going'" (Hesse 10). A man who had spent hundreds of lifetimes accumulating good karma did not want to throw it away by joining the ranks of those who were now paying for their previous lives of sin and corruption. When Siddhartha began his life as a shramana, “he wore only a loincloth and an earth-colored unstitched shawl. He ate only once a day and never cooked... t...... middle of paper ......skepticism about how a dirty ascetic would succeed in the world of merchants and business. The second part of the novel, like the first, also fails at the idea that Siddhartha would be able to move between castes as someone would in Western society. In the third section of Siddharta the pride of the members of the upper classes is faithfully portrayed. Once again, however, the transition from the merchant caste to poverty was forbidden in Indian society. Over the course of his work, Hesse came to portray the same inaccuracies and inaccuracies of the caste system. To appeal to Western readers he included the inaccuracy of free movement between social classes, but was still accurate in how he portrayed the stifled level of interaction between different castes. Works Cited Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2000. Print.

Topic > M. The father said to Siddhartha: “'you will go to the forest and become a shramana. If you find happiness in the forest, come back and teach me happiness. If you find disappointment, then come back and together we will make sacrifices to the gods again. Now go and kiss your mother and tell her where you are going'" (Hesse 10). A man who had spent hundreds of lifetimes accumulating good karma did not want to throw it away by joining the ranks of those who were now paying for their previous lives of sin and corruption. When Siddhartha began his life as a shramana, “he wore only a loincloth and an earth-colored unstitched shawl. He ate only once a day and never cooked... t...... middle of paper ......skepticism about how a dirty ascetic would succeed in the world of merchants and business. The second part of the novel, like the first, also fails at the idea that Siddhartha would be able to move between castes as someone would in Western society. In the third section of Siddharta the pride of the members of the upper classes is faithfully portrayed. Once again, however, the transition from the merchant caste to poverty was forbidden in Indian society. Over the course of his work, Hesse came to portray the same inaccuracies and inaccuracies of the caste system. To appeal to Western readers he included the inaccuracy of free movement between social classes, but was still accurate in how he portrayed the stifled level of interaction between different castes. Works Cited Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2000. Print.