Poster: kws
Subject: Re: Siddhartha and the Female Perspective |
I AM a female reader. I have just finished Siddhartha as part of my summer search for new material to teach in the fall. I agree with Annonymous who answered your post that the novel has to do with the cycle of life and "finding one's self." Most novels DO have a feminine or masculine point of view or perspective, but I think that in this novel, the perspective is human period. The primary female character Kamala was also on a "search," but I think her path was not delineated because the bulk of the focus was on Siddhartha. And, in the end, I think she found a "peace" similar to that which both Siddhartha and Govinda found. My answer to your student would have been that Siddhartha's experiences were universal and not so much based on sexuality.
K
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