Siddhartha's life Realization

In Siddhartha, there are many motifs present. Motifs include dreaming, love, and the world. The first motif is the idea of dreaming.  On page 80, Siddhartha was dreaming. “Then a dream once reminded him. He had been with Kamala in the evening.” He is constantly dreaming of those things in previous chapters and in this one. The motif of dreaming functions by causing Siddhartha to realize something important. The motif is used to help Siddhartha better understand what he wants to do in life. The second motif in Siddhartha is the idea of love. On page 73, Siddhartha says, “I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art?” Siddhartha mentions the idea of love several times to describe what he is like. The motif is used to help show that Siddhartha cannot love in order to reach his goal of happiness. The third motif is the world. On page 41, it describes how Siddhartha felt as, “The world around him melted away.” Siddhartha always includes what the world around him is like because the motif helps describe how he feels in the world.

-David Lai