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The Role Of Mistakes In Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha

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The quote, “you learn from your mistakes”, is very true. Hermann Hesse writes in Siddhartha, “to find meaning, a person needs to follow many paths and make many mistakes.” Siddhartha, the son of a Brahmin, attempts to find himself by experiencing the world around him. He encounters many new teachings and many new paths to choose from. Hermann Hesse wants the reader to realize that in order to find meaning in life, many different paths have to be chosen and many mistakes have to be made.

Making mistakes is a part of life. If nobody ever made any mistakes then there would be no need for any kind of tests. Siddhartha said to his father, “With your permission Father, I have come to tell you that I wish to leave your house to join the ascetics.
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