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Essay / The role of teachers in Herman Hesse's Siddhartha
The role of teachers in Herman Hesse's SiddharthaThroughout history, there have been countless teachers: craftsmen, craftsmen, ideologues , to name a few. They have all mastered a certain skill, gained a certain wisdom, or understood an idea. These teachers have acquired knowledge that allows them to excel and be beyond ordinary people. Knowledge is something that everyone aspires to and many desire. To acquire knowledge, one must have an eye-opening experience and a revelation that leads to the increase of one's intellect and skills. In Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, the main character, Siddhartha, embarks on an almost endless quest to acquire knowledge. Throughout this journey, Siddhartha meets many teachers, from whom he learns a lot, but fails to attain the knowledge for which he acquires. However, each of them teaches him something that ultimately contributes to his ultimate acquisition of knowledge. As Siddhartha mentioned to his good friend Govinda: "You know, my friend, that even as a young man, when we lived with the ascetics in the forest, I came to distrust the doctrines and teachers and turn your back on them. always with the same state of mind, although I have had many teachers since then. A beautiful courtesan was my teacher for a long time, and a rich merchant and dice player, on one occasion one of the Buddha's wandering monks. was my teacher. He stopped on his pilgrimage to sit next to me as I fell asleep in the forest. I also learned something from him and I am grateful, very grateful. But above all, I learned from this river and from this river. my predecessor, Vasudeva. He was a simple man; he was not a thinker, but he realized the essential as well as Gotama, he was a holy man, a saint” (141). The role of teachers in Hesse's outstanding work of fiction. is to assist in the acquisition of ultimate knowledge, without directly taking the student there, but rather giving them the skill set necessary to achieve what the student, in this case Siddhartha, considers to be that ultimate knowledge . Siddhartha throughout his journey meets many teachers. , but before he set out to explore the world in search of knowledge, he was the son of a Brahmin in an Indian city. Siddhartha has always been admired by the people of his city; he always excelled at everything, and was a good writer and a great reader.