Comparing Kamala And Siddhartha

AP Literature

12/21/15From the day we exit our mother’s womb and first saw light, there were already a set of rules that must be followed. From our infancy to our years of independency, we have been subjected to follow a set of law that are often not understood. More often than not those laws are set by the religion our family choose to be part of, and we tend to follow them blindly without wondering why they are followed. The encounters in our lives can be the one that help us change direction. Though they can turn our lives upside down and our living into a world of uncertainty, they can also be the ones to open our eyes to our own reality and ignite self-consciousness in us. They bring experiences to our lives which enlighten

Filled with Lust, he was carried away and found himself doing the same thing he was trying to escape. Trying to sweep her off her feet was getting the key to the world of materialism. In his effort to meet her requirement of possessing riches, he welcomes a world in which every desire was in the open, and the feelings that were hidden for years were becoming more and more apparent each day. “Siddhartha was silent, and they played the game of love, one of the thirty to forty different games which Kamala knew. Her body was like a jaguar and a hunter’s bow whoever learned about loves from her learned many pleasures, many secrets.” (72) He dives into a world of pleasure in which sexual encounters, gambling, the pursuit of wealth becomes a daily routine for his involvement with her left more than just sexual experiences. To him, she was that specific sin that open the portal to many more. “The world had caught him; pleasure, covetousness, idleness, and finally also that vice that he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish acquisitiveness” (78-79) For many year he has lived amongst the one that are living the live he hold such enmity for and now he has become a mirror of the people whose happiness and pleasures is their own