Siddhartha Profile Essay with Quotes

Siddhartha Profile Essay

Herman Hesse depicted Siddhartha as the Buddha, however, the actual founder of Buddhism is Siddhartha Gautama. While these
men had many similarities three main comparisons stood out among the rest. These were their youth, their quests to find enlightenment and their success and failures.

The youth of Siddhartha Gautama was that of a noble family. He was born and raised in Kapilavastu, in the foot hills of the Himalayas in Nepal. He always stayed at home and was destined to become a great ruler. To make sure Siddhartha would be a great king, his father isolated him from the world. He was forced to stay confined in his palace. Siddhartha lived a life that was very strict and confined. Eventually, when he was twenty-nine, he ventured beyond the palace. For the first time Siddhartha saw an old man, a sick man, a corpse being carried to the cremation grounds, and finally a holy man wandering who seemed to be at peace with himself. The Siddhart...