AP Siddhartha questions

1) What does enlightenment look like in Siddhartha? Well I think that the answer to this question is quite obvious if we just look at the overall theme of the passage. Siddhartha wants to be individual and be free from the constraints of his social class. So Enlightenment would be Siddhartha realizing he that there is a future for him outside of these constraints.

2) What purpose does self-denial serve in this passage? Well we can make a pretty strong parrallel to Hamlet here and all the performative utterance stuff that he goes through. In the simplest terms, saying it and doing it are two different things.

3) What role does self indulgence serve in this passage? I believe that everyone has free will. So what some people may look at as Siddhartha indulging in breaking cultural conformity, I see it as a guy making a choice to do something different, and misconstrued as being indulgence.

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