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Analyzing Lilla Crawford's Song 'Into The Woods'

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Written by Stephen Sondheim, american actress Lilla Crawford sang the song “ I know things now” in the musical “Into the woods”. The singer expresses how she had a goal but as she continue her journey, she started to drift away from her goal stating “And he showed me things, many beautiful things that I hadn't thought to explore. They were off my path, so I never had dared. I had been so careful, I never had cared and he made me feel excited and scared.” Hence this song correlates to Siddhartha as it mostly summarize his journey and the desires he still had within himself such as love and greed. The book mentions “how evenly and monotonously his journey had gone on, many long years without a lofty goal, knowing no thirst or elevation of spirit,

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