Ecological Awakening and Spiritual Quest: An Interpretive Study of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha

Abstract

In literature, the environment is not merely a passive background that explains the other aspects of life, but has also been
foregrounded as an active protagonist who faces the existential crises of the real world. Lawrence Buell's pretension in the
environmental imagination in regards to environment is that “any text that foregrounds the environment as more than a
mere background can be seen as environmentally oriented literature” renders an idea to Hermann Hesse to interpret the
sequel of environment in its masterpiece, popularly known as Siddhartha (1922).