This Presentation is prepared as a part of work given as a part of Learning activity.

1. Representation of India in the
Twentieth Century European Literature
with the reference to 'Siddhartha’
“Siddhartha reveals that he does not want to become a
Buddhist but to become Buddha himself”.

2. Name : Rinkal Dangar
Roll no : 18
Enrollment no : 4069206420220007
Paper Name:History of English Literature – From 1900 to 2000
Paper No : 110
Paper Code :22402
Topic: Representation of India in the Twentieth Century
European Literature with the reference to 'Siddhartha’
Submitted to : Smt. S.B.Gardi, department of English M.K.B.U
Dated on : 15/03/2023
E-Mail : dangarrinkal0609@gmail.com
Academic Details

3. Representation of India in Europian Literature
● Rudyard Kipling - ‘Kim’
● E.M.Foster- ‘A Passage to India’
● T.S.Eliot- ‘The Waste Land’
● Herman Hesse- ‘’Siddhartha’
● Virginia Woolf - ‘To the Light House’
● H.G.Wells- ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’

4. Introduction
● Herman Karl Hesse was a German Novelist,
Essayist and Poet.
● He wanted to cure his sickness with life by
immersing himself in Eastern Philosophy.
● Hesse was relatively little known in his
country,he has so far no large popular
following.
● His works are not so much for Entertainment
but rather want to give food for the thought.
● In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in
Literature.

5. ‘Siddhartha’ Novel by Herman Hesse
● The Name Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit
language,Siddha(Achieved) and Artha(Meaning or Wealth),The
one who has found meaning of Existence or he who has attained
his Goals.
● The book, Hesse's 9th novel, was written in German, in a simple,
lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became
influential during the 1960s.
● The Novel is Largely Auto- Biographical and has a long and
interesting History.

6. Two Parts of the Novel
Part one : Chapters
1. The Brahmin Son,
2. With Samanas,
3. Gotama,
4. Awakening
Part Two: Chapters
1. Kamala,
2. Amongst the People,
3. Samsar by the the River,
4. The Ferryman,
5. The Son
6. Om,
7. Givinda

7. Four Stages of the life of Siddhartha
1. Siddhartha still defines himself as a philosophical
and religious person and distance himself from the
world of Merchants.
2. Second -He goes more and more attached to a
Luxurious life and it's comfort.
3. The man who once disposed merchants and
bourgeois people has finally turned into such a
child, himself and then more greedy,more
unscrupulous and more wasted than most of them.
4. The turning point

8. Representation of India in the Novel
● The study of Siddhartha provides not only insight into Eastern religions thought but also
a valuable representation of the influence of religion and culture on literature
● Provides insight into the theme of ones search for personal identity
● Protagonist: Siddhartha is restless and seeks self-realization and inner knowledge.
● Leaves father's household to join
● Antagonist: Siddhartha's base: Siddhartha's base instincts which lead him to ordinary
physical pleasures created by
● Kamaswami: business
● CR Kamala: prostitute

9. ● Works Cited
● Hesse, H. (2023). Siddhartha. Beelzebub
Classics.
● Malthaner, Johannes. “Hermann Hesse.
Siddhartha.” The German Quarterly, vol. 25,
no. 2, 1952, pp. 103–09. JSTOR,
https://doi.org/10.2307/401276. Accessed 15
Mar. 2023.
● The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016.
NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2021. Tue. 15
Mar 2023.

10. Thank You
When someone seeks,' said Siddhartha, 'then it easily
happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks,
and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because
he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking,
because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with
his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding
means: being free, being open, having no goal’