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1,433 | 145_chapter_71 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Five days after Raffles death, the usual crowd of men are standing around in front of the inn. Mr. Hawley, a solicitor, enters. Seeing Bulstrode ride by, he informs a friend that he has heard some sordid facts about Bulstrodes past, told to him by an old friend of that gentleman. The tailor is astonished on hearing the... | [
"Clown. . . . 'Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed,\n you have a delight to sit, have you not?\n Froth. I have so: because it is an open room, and good for winter.\n Clo. Why, very well then: I hope here be truths.\n --Measure for Measure.",
"Five days... |
1,389 | 145_chapter_72 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorotheas enthusiasm is held in check by Farebrothers melancholy doubts and later by Brooke and Chettam. Farebrother knows from experience that "character is not cut in marble" and is vulnerable to temptation. Chettam disapproves of "hasty" interference and advises her to wait for more evidence. Celia comfortably belie... | [
"Full souls are double mirrors, making still\n An endless vista of fair things before,\n Repeating things behind.",
"Dorothea's impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the\nvindication of Lydgate from the suspicion of having accepted money as a\nbribe, underwent a melancholy check when she ... |
1,390 | 145_chapter_73 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate feels this is the worst calamity to strike him in his checkered career. The gulf between the noble tasks he had imagined for himself and the sordid "swamp" he is trapped in almost breaks him down. He is tortured by doubts. Even if Bulstrode had given him the money to silence him about Raffles disclosures. Even ... | [
"Pity the laden one; this wandering woe\n May visit you and me.",
"When Lydgate had allayed Mrs. Bulstrode's anxiety by telling her that\nher husband had been seized with faintness at the meeting, but that he\ntrusted soon to see him better and would call again the next day,\nunless she sent for him earlier, h... |
1,391 | 145_chapter_74 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The wives of the prosperous "Middlemarchers" are thrown into confusion. Most of them like Harriet Vincy, as they still call Mrs. Bulstrode. They feel for her, and yet little jealousies about her fine clothes and feathers in her hats resurface in their talk. Most sympathize with her, though Bulstrode is much disliked. S... | [
"\"Mercifully grant that we may grow aged together.\"\n --BOOK OF TOBIT: Marriage Prayer.",
"In Middlemarch a wife could not long remain ignorant that the town held\na bad opinion of her husband. No feminine intimate might carry her\nfriendship so far as to make a plain statement to th... |
1,392 | 145_chapter_75 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rosamond is disconsolate and thoroughly dissatisfied. She writes off Lydgates brooding as just "being disagreeable." She has turned hostile to him as the main source of her unhappiness. Ladislaws departure, the snub from Lydgates uncle, all contributes to her frustration. But she still does not know about his disgrace.... | [
"\"Le sentiment de la faussete des plaisirs presents, et\n l'ignorance de la vanite des plaisirs absents causent\n l'inconstance.\"--PASCAL.",
"Rosamond had a gleam of returning cheerfulness when the house was freed\nfrom the threatening figure, and when all the disagreeable creditors\nwere paid. But she wa... |
1,393 | 145_chapter_76 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea summons Lydgate to Lowick, apparently in connection with Bulstrodes withdrawal of support from the new hospital. Now that she has an opportunity she is determined to back Lydgate fully and find out the facts from him. She does not allow her own inexperience or the talk of his personal reserve to come in her wa... | [
"\"To mercy, pity, peace, and love\n All pray in their distress,\n And to these virtues of delight,\n Return their thankfulness.\n . . . . . .\n For Mercy has a human heart,\n Pity a human face;\n And Love, the human form divine;\n And Peace, the human... |
1,394 | 145_chapter_77 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rosamond is steeped in melancholy, gentle, and abstracted, so that Lydgate feared her. The only cheerful thing in her life seemed to be the arrival of Ladislaw. Somehow she linked his arrival with an attachment to herself personally. She is also hopeful that after he came, she could persuade her husband to quit Middlem... | [
"\"And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,\n To mark the full-fraught man and best indued\n With some suspicion.\"\n --Henry V.",
"The next day Lydgate had to go to Brassing, and told Rosamond that he\nshould be away until the evening. Of late she had never gone... |
1,395 | 145_chapter_78 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will looks at Rosamond angrily, who by throwing herself at him in her misery, ended all his long-held hopes. He lashes out at her, oblivious to her hurt and shock. She feels his remark about Dorothea "No other woman exists by the side of her" to be a "poisoned weapon" hurled at her. For the first time, she is made to f... | [
"\"Would it were yesterday and I i' the grave,\n With her sweet faith above for monument\"",
"Rosamond and Will stood motionless--they did not know how long--he\nlooking towards the spot where Dorothea had stood, and she looking\ntowards him with doubt. It seemed an endless time to Rosamond, in\nwhose inmost... |
1,396 | 145_chapter_79 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will arrives later, to find Lydgate unaware of his earlier visit. He is told that Rosamond is ill, having been worried about their problems Lydgate explains the nature of their problems to him and cautions him about being included in the sordid story. Will jokes bitterly about it, thinking that here was one more additi... | [
"\"Now, I saw in my dream, that just as they had ended their\n talk, they drew nigh to a very miry slough, that was in the\n midst of the plain; and they, being heedless, did both fall\n suddenly into the bog. The name of the slough was\n Despond.\"--BUNYAN.",
"When Rosamond was quiet, and Lydgate had... |
1,397 | 145_chapter_80 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea keeps herself busy with visits to the school she has set up, to her gardener, and then to dinner at the Farebrothers. A small incident there brings up Farebrothers aunts devoted friendship with Ladislaw. Listening to talk about him, Dorothea can not longer control herself. She rushes home, and breaks down in t... | [
"\"Stern lawgiver! yet thou dost wear\n The Godhead's most benignant grace;\n Nor know we anything so fair\n As is the smile upon thy face;\n Flowers laugh before thee on their beds,\n And fragrance in thy footing treads;\n Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong;\n And ... |
1,398 | 145_chapter_81 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea arrives looking depressed at Lydgates and is met by him. He gives her a letter acknowledging her loan and thanking her. He then fetches a listless Rosamond to meet her. Rosamond is filled with dread after the painful incident of the previous day, but she cannot avoid meeting Dorothea. Both are uneasy and unhap... | [
"\"Du Erde warst auch diese Nacht bestandig,\n Und athmest neu erquickt zu meinen Fussen,\n Beginnest schon mit Lust mich zu umgeben,\n Zum regst und ruhrst ein kraftiges Reschliessen\n Zum hochsten Dasein immerfort zu streben.\n --Faust: 2r Theil.",
"When Dorothe... |
1,399 | 145_chapter_82 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will has been like an exile in London. Hence when a plan for a new settlement in the West comes up, he tells himself he needs to go to Middlemarch to think over taking up Bulstrodes old offer. Immediately on arrival, he goes to Lydgates house, and his "familiar little world" is shattered. After this he roams around res... | [
"\"My grief lies onward and my joy behind.\"\n --SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.",
"Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in\nbanishment unless they are obliged. When Will Ladislaw exiled himself\nfrom Middlemarch he had placed no stronger obstacle to his return t... |
1,400 | 145_chapter_83 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two days after her meeting with Rosamond, Dorothea finds herself energetic and restless, unable to settle down to any work. She has an unexpected visitor in Miss Noble, Mr. Farebrothers aunt. The old lady timidly asks if she will meet Will Ladislaw, and asks her not to disappoint him. When Dorothea agrees, the old lady... | [
"\"And now good-morrow to our waking souls\n Which watch not one another out of fear;\n For love all love of other sights controls,\n And makes one little room, an everywhere.\"\n --DR. DONNE.",
"On the second morning after Dorothea's visit to Rosamond, she had ha... |
1,401 | 145_chapter_84 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The House of Lords throw out the controversial Reform Bill. A group consisting of the Cadwalladers and the Chettams is discussing this subject. Into their midst, comes, a nervous Brooke to break the "bad news" of Dorotheas second marriage. The company receives with general disgust. Sir James in particular is white with... | [
"\"Though it be songe of old and yonge,\n That I sholde be to blame,\n Theyrs be the charge, that spoke so large\n In hurtynge of my name.\"\n --The Not-Browne Mayde.",
"It was just after the Lords had thrown out the Reform Bill: that\nexplains how Mr. Cadwallader cam... |
1,402 | 145_chapter_85 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bulstrode has retreated into solitude and withdrawn from all public life. He is arranging his business affairs prior to leaving the town. The hardest thing for him to bear is that he who wanted to be a better person than his neighbor is found by them to be much worse. He is haunted by the fear of losing his wifes sympa... | [
"\"Then went the jury out whose names were Mr. Blindman, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-lust, Mr. Live-loose, Mr. Heady, Mr. High-mind, Mr. Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. Cruelty, Mr. Hate-light, Mr. Implacable, who every one gave in his private verdict against him among themselves, and afterwards unanimously concluded t... |
1,403 | 145_chapter_86 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Caleb Garth accepts Mrs. Bulstrodes proposal. He goes home to break the good news to Mary. There is an affectionate interlude where he teases her about Freds worth and wants to be sure she loves him. Mary cheerfully asserts that she loves him only "because I have always loved him. I should never like scolding any one e... | [
"\"Le coeur se sature d'amour comme d'un sel divin qui le\n conserve; de la l'incorruptible adherence de ceux qui se\n sont aimes des l'aube de la vie, et la fraicheur des vielles\n amours prolonges. Il existe un embaumement d'amour. C'est de\n Daphnis et Chloe que sont faits Philemon et Baucis. Cette\n... |
1,451 | 145_prelude_and_chapters_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is a charming vignette of Saint Theresa of Avila as a little girl, holding her brother by the hand, going out into the country side looking for martyrdom, illustrating the "passionate, ideal nature an epic life." Such a girl who has a "rapturous consciousness of life beyond self" could hardly be content with a no... | [
"\"Since I can do no good because a woman,\n Reach constantly at something that is near it.\n --The Maid's Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.",
"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into\nrelief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that\nshe could wear sleeves... |
1,452 | 145_chapters_6-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Cadwallader, the curate's wife and local busybody, learns of Dorothea's engagement from Celia. She is indignant, for she had already planned for Dorothea to marry Sir James. She goes to Sir James and tells him what has happened. He is disappointed. Being conventional, he cannot understand how a young, beautiful wo... | [
"My lady's tongue is like the meadow blades,\n That cut you stroking them with idle hand.\n Nice cutting is her function: she divides\n With spiritual edge the millet-seed,\n And makes intangible savings.",
"As Mr. Casaubon's carriage was passing out of the gateway, it arrested\nthe entrance of a pony... |
1,453 | 145_chapters_9-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Brooke family visits Casaubon's home at Lowick in anticipation of the wedding. Dorothea is charmed, but Celia thinks the place dark, depressing and dreary. Dorothea is already submissive, leaving all choices to Casaubon. They meet in the garden an artist sketching-Mr. Will Ladislaw, Casaubon's second cousin, whom C... | [
"1st Gent. An ancient land in ancient oracles\n Is called \"law-thirsty\": all the struggle there\n Was after order and a perfect rule.\n Pray, where lie such lands now? . . .\n 2d Gent. Why, where they lay of old--in human souls.",
"Mr. Casaubon's behavior abou... |
1,437 | 145_chapters_13-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Mr. Vincy arrives at Mr. Bulstrode's to talk about Fred's unfortunate position, he finds the banker busy with another visitor, Mr. Lydgate. The latter has come to see Bulstrode about plans for a new hospital where Lydgate will be able to serve as a regular physician and also to observe and study closely some of hi... | [
"1st Gent. How class your man?--as better than the most,\n Or, seeming better, worse beneath that cloak?\n As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite?\n 2d Gent. Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books\n The drifted relics of all time.\n As we... |
1,454 | 145_chapters_17-18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a character sketch of Mr. Farebrother, we see why he is best suited for the hospital job. He is a kindly bachelor of forty who supports his mother, aunt, and sister. He is modest and does not try to influence Lydgate who is becoming his personal friend. They enjoy speaking of scientific topics, for Farebrother is a ... | [
"\"The clerkly person smiled and said\n Promise was a pretty maid,\n But being poor she died unwed.\"",
"The Rev. Camden Farebrother, whom Lydgate went to see the next evening,\nlived in an old parsonage, built of stone, venerable enough to match\nthe church which it looked out upon. All the furniture too... |
1,455 | 145_chapters_19-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will Ladislaw and his German painter friend, Adolf Naumann, are in the Vatican looking at statues, contrasting the voluptuous figure of Cleopatra to Dorothea Casaubon in her severe Quakerish dress. They speak of her aesthetically as a young Madonna unfortunately married to a man who looks like her uncle. Naumann decide... | [
"\"L' altra vedete ch'ha fatto alla guancia\n Della sua palma, sospirando, letto.\"\n --Purgatorio, vii.",
"When George the Fourth was still reigning over the privacies of\nWindsor, when the Duke of Wellington was Prime Minister, and Mr. Vincy\nwas mayor of the old corporation in ... |
1,456 | 145_chapters_23-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred owes 160 pounds to a moneylender for gambling debts. He is afraid to go to his father for money, so he goes to Caleb Garth, the father of his childhood sweetheart, Mary, to get him to sign the note. To raise the money to pay him back, Fred gambles with the 20 pounds from Featherstone's gift. When this fails, he de... | [
"\"Your horses of the Sun,\" he said,\n \"And first-rate whip Apollo!\n Whate'er they be, I'll eat my head,\n But I will beat them hollow.\"",
"Fred Vincy, we have seen, had a debt on his mind, and though no such\nimmaterial burthen could depress that buoyant-hearted young gentleman\nfor many hours tog... |
1,457 | 145_chapters_27-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The famous pierglass analogy sets the theme of how egotism leads us to interpret things as we want to see them. A polished steel pierglass is scratched in all directions, but the scratches seem to arrange themselves in concentric circles when you hold up a candle flame as a center of illumination. Such is the situation... | [
"Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian:\n We are but mortals, and must sing of man.",
"An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly\nfurniture by lifting it into the serene light of science, has shown me\nthis pregnant little fact. Your pier-glass or extensive surface of\npolished s... |
1,458 | 145_chapters_31-35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Vincys, Rosamond comments on Lydgate's growing practice, and he mentions that he prefers to treat the poor because their cases are more challenging. Word goes out about their flirtation, and Aunt Bulstrode interferes, telling Lydgate that if he is not serious, he should get out of the way of other suitors. Lydga... | [
"How will you know the pitch of that great bell\n Too large for you to stir? Let but a flute\n Play 'neath the fine-mixed metal listen close\n Till the right note flows forth, a silvery rill.\n Then shall the huge bell tremble--then the mass\n With myriad waves concurrent shall respond\n In low s... |
1,459 | 145_chapters_36-38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Vincy is so upset that Fred did not inherit that he becomes severe, wanting Fred to finish university and Rosamond to break off her engagement because he is sure Lydgate has no money. Times are tough, he says, and all Lydgate does is to make enemies. . Rosamond is already planning her house, furniture, and clothes.... | [
"\"'Tis strange to see the humors of these men,\n These great aspiring spirits, that should be wise:\n . . . . . . . .\n For being the nature of great spirits to love\n To be where they may be most eminent;\n They, rating of themselves so farre above\n Us in con... |
1,460 | 145_chapters_39-41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea makes a visit to Tipton Grange and runs into Will who is staying there. He informs her that her husband has forbidden his visits, and Dorothea is sad. She tells him she will nevertheless always be aware of what he is doing. She believes that by desiring what is good we are part of the divine power against evil... | [
"\"If, as I have, you also doe,\n Vertue attired in woman see,\n And dare love that, and say so too,\n And forget the He and She;",
"And if this love, though placed so,\n From prophane men you hide,\n Which will no faith on this bestow,\n Or, if they doe, deride:",
"Then you have... |
1,461 | 145_chapters_42-45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We see Casaubon's worried state of mind. He feels his work is not respected and that Dorothea judges him, even in her devotion. Though he knows her to be virtuous, he feels she has betrayed him by being influenced by Will Ladislaw. He thinks she needs to be protected from herself, and worries Ladislaw may go after her ... | [
"\"How much, methinks, I could despise this man\n Were I not bound in charity against it!\n --SHAKESPEARE: Henry VIII.",
"One of the professional calls made by Lydgate soon after his return\nfrom his wedding-journey was to Lowick Manor, in consequence of a\nletter which had requested ... |
1,462 | 145_chapters_46-47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eliot brings in the growing excitement over reform, which will lead to the great Reform Bill of 1832. In this time of ferment, Brooke and Will are working together on articles for The Pioneer favoring reform and greater political participation for the working classes, and Brooke is getting ready to stand for Parliament... | [
"Pues no podemos haber aquello que queremos, queramos\n aquello que podremos.",
"Since we cannot get what we like, let us like\n what we can get.\n --Spanish Proverb.",
"While Lydgate, safely married and with the Hospital under his command,\nfelt himself struggling for ... |
1,463 | 145_chapters_48-51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is upset at the alienation between Will and Casaubon. Casaubon had been ill and unable to preach that Sunday. Dorothea longs for a fuller companionship. Because of her husband's bad health, Dorothea is working harder, sifting through his notes. Casaubon believes her devotion belongs strictly to himself and tri... | [
"Surely the golden hours are turning gray\n And dance no more, and vainly strive to run:\n I see their white locks streaming in the wind--\n Each face is haggard as it looks at me,\n Slow turning in the constant clasping round\n Storm-driven.",
"Dorothea's distress when she was leaving the church c... |
1,464 | 145_chapters_52-55 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that Farebrother is the new rector of Lowick, his sister suggests he could ask Mary Garth to marry him. He has secretly loved her for a long time. However, Fred, who has graduated from university, comes to Farebrother, asking him to approach Mary to find out her feelings for him. Thus Farebrother is put in an awkwa... | [
"\"His heart\n The lowliest duties on itself did lay.\"\n --WORDSWORTH.",
"On that June evening when Mr. Farebrother knew that he was to have the\nLowick living, there was joy in the old fashioned parlor, and even the\nportraits of the great lawyers seemed to look on with satisf... |
1,465 | 145_chapters_56-57 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The railroad has come to Middlemarch. Many are frightened by this sign of progress. One farmworker says the railroad will only leave the poor farther behind: "This is the big folks's world, this is." Garth surveys the property where it will go through and finds the local people attacking the railroad agents. He and his... | [
"\"How happy is he born and taught\n That serveth not another's will;\n Whose armor is his honest thought,\n And simple truth his only skill!\n . . . . . . .\n This man is freed from servile bands\n Of hope to rise or fear to fall;\n Lord of himself though not of lands;\n ... |
1,446 | 145_chapters_58-62 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rosamond has a miscarriage because she goes out riding with Lydgate's aristocratic cousin, in spite of her husband's warning. Lydgate is beginning to realize his powerlessness over his wife. His superior mind holds no attraction to her, and affection does not make her compliant. Though he sacrifices for her, it is an e... | [
"\"For there can live no hatred in thine eye,\n Therefore in that I cannot know thy change:\n In many's looks the false heart's history\n Is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange:\n But Heaven in thy creation did decree\n That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell:\n Whate'er thy ... |
1,447 | 145_chapters_63-67 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Farebrother knows of Lydgate's financial problems and offers him help, but in his pride, Lydgate brushes him off. Lydgate tries to find a buyer for his home and furniture, a gesture which makes Rosamond feel humiliated. Without her husband's knowledge, she writes to Lydgate's rich uncle, the baronet, for help. Lydgate ... | [
"These little things are great to little man.--GOLDSMITH.",
"\"Have you seen much of your scientific phoenix, Lydgate, lately?\" said\nMr. Toller at one of his Christmas dinner-parties, speaking to Mr.\nFarebrother on his right hand.",
"\"Not much, I am sorry to say,\" answered the Vicar, accustomed to parry\nM... |
1,466 | 145_chapters_68-74 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Raffles shows up at Bulstrode's on Christmas Eve, drunk, and Bulstrode hides him in his room. He tells his wife he is taking care of a poor man who has a claim on him. Once more he pays Raffles to leave town, but Bulstrode is emotionally going over the edge. . Mr. Garth tries to make a deal with Bulstrode to have Fred ... | [
"\"What suit of grace hath Virtue to put on\n If Vice shall wear as good, and do as well?\n If Wrong, if Craft, if Indiscretion\n Act as fair parts with ends as laudable?\n Which all this mighty volume of events\n The world, the universal map of deeds,\n Strongly controls, and proves from al... |
1,467 | 145_chapters_75-83 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Lydgates are able to keep their house with the money from Bulstrode, but no one calls there but Will Ladislaw. Rosamond thinks his flirtation hides a deeper feeling, and daydreams about Will keep her going at this time. When she finds out about her husband's scandal, she is in deep shock and sends for Will. Dorothe... | [
"\"Le sentiment de la faussete des plaisirs presents, et\n l'ignorance de la vanite des plaisirs absents causent\n l'inconstance.\"--PASCAL.",
"Rosamond had a gleam of returning cheerfulness when the house was freed\nfrom the threatening figure, and when all the disagreeable creditors\nwere paid. But she wa... |
1,468 | 145_chapters_84-86_&_finale | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Brooke brings the news to Freshitt Hall that Will and Dorothea will be married in three weeks. Everyone is shocked and feels that Dorothea is making a second mistake. Dorothea stands strongly by her decision. . Mr. Bulstrode sends his daughters to school and prepares to leave Middlemarch. He is concerned about his ... | [
"\"Though it be songe of old and yonge,\n That I sholde be to blame,\n Theyrs be the charge, that spoke so large\n In hurtynge of my name.\"\n --The Not-Browne Mayde.",
"It was just after the Lords had thrown out the Reform Bill: that\nexplains how Mr. Cadwallader cam... |
1,469 | 2500_part_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part One: Siddhartha The Brahmins Son Siddhartha, the son of a Brahmin , and his best friend, Govinda, have grown up learning the ways of the Brahmins. Everyone in their village loves Siddhartha. But although he brings joy to everyone's life, Siddhartha feels little joy himself. He is troubled by restless dreams and be... | [
"FIRST PART To Romain Rolland, my dear friend THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN",
"In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the\nboats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree\nis where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young\nfalcon, together with his... |
1,470 | 2500_part_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part Two: Siddhartha Kamala After rejecting his former beliefs about the world's suspicious, illusory character, Siddhartha becomes enthralled by its beauteous details. He reflects on his previous experiences and realizes that "he had never found his Self, because he had wanted to trap it in the net of thoughts" . Neit... | [
"SECOND PART Dedicated to Wilhelm Gundert, my cousin in Japan KAMALA",
"Siddhartha learned something new on every step of his path, for the\nworld was transformed, and his heart was enchanted. He saw the sun\nrising over the mountains with their forests and setting over the\ndistant beach with its palm-trees. At ... |
1,471 | 2500_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel opens with this guy named Siddhartha in ancient India. He and his best friend, Govinda, belong to the elite Brahman caste, which means that they're top of the heap and super-rich. Siddhartha is the Golden Boy of his community: men want to be him and women want to be with him. Even though Siddhartha participat... | [
"FIRST PART To Romain Rolland, my dear friend THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN",
"In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the\nboats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree\nis where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young\nfalcon, together with his... |
1,472 | 2500_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Govinda and Siddhartha find some Samanas and join them in their Who Can Go the Longest Without Eating contest. Siddhartha gives away his clothes, begins fasting for long periods, and eats only once a day when he's not fasting. Through self-torture, Siddhartha aims to completely empty himself in order to identify with t... | [
"WITH THE SAMANAS",
"In the evening of this day they caught up with the ascetics, the skinny\nSamanas, and offered them their companionship and--obedience. They\nwere accepted.",
"Siddhartha gave his garments to a poor Brahman in the street. He wore\nnothing more than the loincloth and the earth-coloured, unso... |
1,473 | 2500_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha and Govinda arrive in a Jetavana grove, which is the happening spot for Gotama Buddha. They spend the night; in the morning they find that a massive crowd has gathered to hear the Buddha speak. Siddhartha and Govinda are immediately able to identify the Buddha among the crowd of Yellow-Robed Men. There are a... | [
"GOTAMA",
"In the town of Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha,\nand every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's\ndisciples, the silently begging ones. Near the town was Gotama's\nfavourite place to stay, the grove of Jetavana, which the rich merchant\nAnathapindika, an obedien... |
1,474 | 2500_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As he walks away from Govinda, Siddhartha realizes that he is embarking on a new stage of life. He has walked away from all his teachers, even Buddha, because they cannot teach the nature of the self. Siddhartha decides to learn from himself alone. As he walks, Siddhartha sees his surroundings as real and beautiful, ra... | [
"AWAKENING",
"When Siddhartha left the grove, where the Buddha, the perfected one,\nstayed behind, where Govinda stayed behind, then he felt that in this\ngrove his past life also stayed behind and parted from him. He pondered\nabout this sensation, which filled him completely, as he was slowly\nwalking along. ... |
1,475 | 2500_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha continues to appreciate his surroundings and decides to always obey his inner voice and to seek experience. He comes to a river and befriends the ferryman. He crashes for the night at the ferryman's bachelor pad and dreams about Govinda. Let's check out this dream. Govinda, wearing a yellow robe, approaches ... | [
"SECOND PART Dedicated to Wilhelm Gundert, my cousin in Japan KAMALA",
"Siddhartha learned something new on every step of his path, for the\nworld was transformed, and his heart was enchanted. He saw the sun\nrising over the mountains with their forests and setting over the\ndistant beach with its palm-trees. At ... |
1,476 | 2500_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha goes to see Kamaswami, the wealthy merchant. The merchant questions him about his skills and needs. Siddhartha has no needs and argues that his ability to fast is an asset: he's not troubled by the lack of food, therefore no one can force him to do something for food. It has also taught him patience. When th... | [
"WITH THE CHILDLIKE PEOPLE",
"Siddhartha went to Kamaswami the merchant, he was directed into a rich\nhouse, servants led him between precious carpets into a chamber, where\nhe awaited the master of the house.",
"Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair,\nwith very intelligent, caut... |
1,477 | 2500_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the years go by and Siddhartha accrues more and more wealth, his Samana-like qualities begin to fade. They are replaced with more Material Girl-like qualities. He grows increasingly greedy, troubled by everyday problems, and unhappy. He feels trapped by pleasure, pain, and a sense of self-hatred. Siddhartha engages ... | [
"SANSARA",
"For a long time, Siddhartha had lived the life of the world and of lust,\nthough without being a part of it. His senses, which he had killed off\nin hot years as a Samana, had awoken again, he had tasted riches, had\ntasted lust, had tasted power; nevertheless he had still remained in his\nheart for ... |
1,478 | 2500_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha heads for the forest, determined never to go back to his life of wealth. He is depressed. He wanders. He is depressed some more. Siddhartha approaches the same river where he met the ferryman years before. In utter despair he clings to a coconut tree along the bank. He dreams about dropping and submerging hi... | [
"BY THE RIVER",
"Siddhartha walked through the forest, was already far from the city, and\nknew nothing but that one thing, that there was no going back for him,\nthat this life, as he had lived it for many years until now, was over\nand done away with, and that he had tasted all of it, sucked everything\nout of ... |
1,479 | 2500_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha observes the river and realizes that every movement of the water is new. He is painfully hungry and finds the ferryman he met years before. The man's name is Vasudeva. Siddhartha asks for a ride across the river. He has no money to offer the ferryman, but asks if Vasudeva will accept his fine clothes. The fe... | [
"THE FERRYMAN",
"By this river I want to stay, thought Siddhartha, it is the same which\nI have crossed a long time ago on my way to the childlike people, a\nfriendly ferryman had guided me then, he is the one I want to go to,\nstarting out from his hut, my path had led me at that time into a new\nlife, which had... |
1,480 | 2500_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha's son grieves for Kamala. Siddhartha treats him with consideration and respect although he realizes the boy has been spoiled by a wealthy lifestyle. Siddhartha struggles to try to win his son's love and acceptance with kindness, but his efforts are in vain. His son came to the river out of necessity, not des... | [
"THE SON",
"Timid and weeping, the boy had attended his mother's funeral; gloomy\nand shy, he had listened to Siddhartha, who greeted him as his son and\nwelcomed him at his place in Vasudeva's hut. Pale, he sat for many\ndays by the hill of the dead, did not want to eat, gave no open look,\ndid not open his hea... |
1,481 | 2500_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha feels warm toward the ordinary people whom he transports across the river. Rather than the contempt that he previously felt, he now sees their troubles as understandable and honorable. Siddhartha considers the possibility that his awareness of the unity of the universe, too, is mere childishness, but this id... | [
"OM",
"For a long time, the wound continued to burn. Many a traveller\nSiddhartha had to ferry across the river who was accompanied by a son or\na daughter, and he saw none of them without envying him, without\nthinking: \"So many, so many thousands possess this sweetest of good\nfortunes--why don't I? Even ba... |
1,482 | 2500_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Govinda is still traveling with the men in yellow robes. They look up to him now because he's wise and old, but Govinda is still unsatisfied and seeks enlightenment. Govinda hears about this wise ferryman and decides to go talk to him. That ferryman is Siddhartha. Govinda doesn't realize this. Siddhartha tells Govinda ... | [
"GOVINDA",
"Together with other monks, Govinda used to spend the time of rest\nbetween pilgrimages in the pleasure-grove, which the courtesan Kamala\nhad given to the followers of Gotama for a gift. He heard talk of an\nold ferryman, who lived one day's journey away by the river, and\nwho was regarded as a wise ... |
1,472 | 2500_with_the_samanas | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is in this sequence that Siddhartha and Govinda attempt to gain salvation through asceticism. Using as a premise the ascetic idea that the sensual world is transitory and illusory, Siddhartha attempts to void his self and thus void with it all the torments of the senses. He resolves that if he can let the self die, ... | [
"WITH THE SAMANAS",
"In the evening of this day they caught up with the ascetics, the skinny\nSamanas, and offered them their companionship and--obedience. They\nwere accepted.",
"Siddhartha gave his garments to a poor Brahman in the street. He wore\nnothing more than the loincloth and the earth-coloured, unso... |
1,473 | 2500_gotama | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this sequence, Siddhartha goes with Govinda to hear the teachings of Buddha, and Govinda remains with Buddha to become his disciple. Siddhartha, however, feels that everyone must find his own way to salvation and, hence, does not remain. The "Gotama" sequence begins with Buddha's taking alms in the town of Savathi a... | [
"GOTAMA",
"In the town of Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha,\nand every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's\ndisciples, the silently begging ones. Near the town was Gotama's\nfavourite place to stay, the grove of Jetavana, which the rich merchant\nAnathapindika, an obedien... |
1,474 | 2500_awakening | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This brief sequence portends a basic turning point in the novel and signals the end of Part I. The mood of this sequence is one of great loneliness, for Siddhartha is beyond the point of being able to return home again, and now he has parted ways with Govinda. He reflects that he has left his former life behind him and... | [
"AWAKENING",
"When Siddhartha left the grove, where the Buddha, the perfected one,\nstayed behind, where Govinda stayed behind, then he felt that in this\ngrove his past life also stayed behind and parted from him. He pondered\nabout this sensation, which filled him completely, as he was slowly\nwalking along. ... |
1,475 | 2500_kamala | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Unlike Part I, the second part of this novel was written with extreme difficulty. Part I, Hesse said, flowed in a potent burst of creative energy, but this creative energy seemed suddenly to run dry; Hesse didn't know how to continue his story or how to end it, so he put the manuscript away for about eighteen months. O... | [
"SECOND PART Dedicated to Wilhelm Gundert, my cousin in Japan KAMALA",
"Siddhartha learned something new on every step of his path, for the\nworld was transformed, and his heart was enchanted. He saw the sun\nrising over the mountains with their forests and setting over the\ndistant beach with its palm-trees. At ... |
1,476 | 2500_with_the_childlike_people | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This second sequence of Part II develops Siddhartha's acquaintance with Kamala and introduces Siddhartha to Kamaswami. Significant is the meaning inherent in names, beginning with "Kama"; Kama is the Hindu god of lustful love and desire. The word "swami" designates Kamaswami as a master -- in this case, the master of t... | [
"WITH THE CHILDLIKE PEOPLE",
"Siddhartha went to Kamaswami the merchant, he was directed into a rich\nhouse, servants led him between precious carpets into a chamber, where\nhe awaited the master of the house.",
"Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair,\nwith very intelligent, caut... |
1,477 | 2500_sansara | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We plumb the depths of the world of illusion in the sequence entitled "Sansara." Sansara, the polar opposite of Nirvana, is identified in the Buddhist system with illusion, spiritual death, and ultimate despair. Many years pass during this sequence that takes place in the city, and the fine poetic image of the potter's... | [
"SANSARA",
"For a long time, Siddhartha had lived the life of the world and of lust,\nthough without being a part of it. His senses, which he had killed off\nin hot years as a Samana, had awoken again, he had tasted riches, had\ntasted lust, had tasted power; nevertheless he had still remained in his\nheart for ... |
1,478 | 2500_by_the_river | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As we embark upon this sequence, we must realize that Siddhartha is now in his forties and that he has spent a little over twenty years in the city. Time rushes by in this novel very much like a current beneath the time close-ups. Plot progression seemingly takes place only when we zoom in on isolated days and nights, ... | [
"BY THE RIVER",
"Siddhartha walked through the forest, was already far from the city, and\nknew nothing but that one thing, that there was no going back for him,\nthat this life, as he had lived it for many years until now, was over\nand done away with, and that he had tasted all of it, sucked everything\nout of ... |
1,479 | 2500_the_ferryman | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Vasudeva, the quiet ferryman whose name is derived from one of the names of Krishna, and which basically means "he in whom all things abide and who abides in all," is an unforgettable character. In Siddhartha's decision to stay by the river, he recalls the ferryman and resolves that his new life will begin again with t... | [
"THE FERRYMAN",
"By this river I want to stay, thought Siddhartha, it is the same which\nI have crossed a long time ago on my way to the childlike people, a\nfriendly ferryman had guided me then, he is the one I want to go to,\nstarting out from his hut, my path had led me at that time into a new\nlife, which had... |
1,480 | 2500_the_son | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As this sequence begins, the action occurs on no particular day or any particular time of day; we are simply given a report of the father-son relationship. The sadness of the events which follow are sublimely tempered by the wisdom and kindness of the old Vasudeva. Despite Siddhartha's efforts to win the love and respe... | [
"THE SON",
"Timid and weeping, the boy had attended his mother's funeral; gloomy\nand shy, he had listened to Siddhartha, who greeted him as his son and\nwelcomed him at his place in Vasudeva's hut. Pale, he sat for many\ndays by the hill of the dead, did not want to eat, gave no open look,\ndid not open his hea... |
1,481 | 2500_om | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This sequence begins with the wound motif and traces Siddhartha's recovery from the sickness he felt because of his son. Its primary material concerns the sense of simultaneity and unity within Siddhartha, expressed by the river's utterance of OM. It ends with Siddhartha's succeeding Vasudeva as the ferryman of the riv... | [
"OM",
"For a long time, the wound continued to burn. Many a traveller\nSiddhartha had to ferry across the river who was accompanied by a son or\na daughter, and he saw none of them without envying him, without\nthinking: \"So many, so many thousands possess this sweetest of good\nfortunes--why don't I? Even ba... |
1,482 | 2500_govinda | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As this sequence begins, Govinda has arrived to cross the river, meeting Siddhartha, who is now an old man. Siddhartha's eyes smile as did Vasudeva's many years earlier. A superlative dialogue between them follows in which Siddhartha declares that in order to find one's goal, one must be free. The goal, Nirvana, is so ... | [
"GOVINDA",
"Together with other monks, Govinda used to spend the time of rest\nbetween pilgrimages in the pleasure-grove, which the courtesan Kamala\nhad given to the followers of Gotama for a gift. He heard talk of an\nold ferryman, who lived one day's journey away by the river, and\nwho was regarded as a wise ... |
1,471 | 2500_chapter_1:_the_brahmin's_son | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha grows up in a serene natural atmosphere of dense woods on a pleasant riverbank. He is a handsome boy who has been taught spiritual matters by his father. He converses with religious men and practices the art of contemplation and meditation, engaging in debates with his friend Govinda, who loves everything ab... | [
"FIRST PART To Romain Rolland, my dear friend THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN",
"In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the\nboats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree\nis where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young\nfalcon, together with his... |
1,472 | 2500_chapter_2:_with_the_samanas | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the evening, both Siddhartha and Govinda catch up with the Samanas and join them. Instructed by the eldest of the Samanas, they practice tremendous self-denial and meditation. They travel the same path and make the same endeavors, but seldom speak. One day Govinda tells Siddhartha that he will be a great Samana, a h... | [
"WITH THE SAMANAS",
"In the evening of this day they caught up with the ascetics, the skinny\nSamanas, and offered them their companionship and--obedience. They\nwere accepted.",
"Siddhartha gave his garments to a poor Brahman in the street. He wore\nnothing more than the loincloth and the earth-coloured, unso... |
1,473 | 2500_chapter_3:_gotama | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The two young men proceed to Jetavana, where Buddha, the Illustrious One, dwells. They spend the night there and in the morning, when the place is swarming with pilgrims, the men go off to seek their midday meal. Siddhartha recognizes the Buddha sitting with his disciples. He is eating such a meager quantity of food th... | [
"GOTAMA",
"In the town of Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha,\nand every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's\ndisciples, the silently begging ones. Near the town was Gotama's\nfavourite place to stay, the grove of Jetavana, which the rich merchant\nAnathapindika, an obedien... |
1,474 | 2500_chapter_4:_awakening | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Siddhartha leaves the grove, he accepts that he is different from everyone and that he is one and one alone. He feels sad that he knows less about himself than about anything else in the world. He is almost obsessed with the idea of self, wanting to discover it and conquer it. Suddenly Siddhartha, with an air of fin... | [
"AWAKENING",
"When Siddhartha left the grove, where the Buddha, the perfected one,\nstayed behind, where Govinda stayed behind, then he felt that in this\ngrove his past life also stayed behind and parted from him. He pondered\nabout this sensation, which filled him completely, as he was slowly\nwalking along. ... |
1,475 | 2500_chapter_5:_kamala | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Kamala Siddhartha learns something new at every step; the world seems transformed for him and he is enthralled by it. He sees the beauty of the sun, moon, and stars journeying through nature. The animals, bees, clouds, weeds, flowers, and dew on the bushes all have an enriching affect on him. The world is wonderful whe... | [
"SECOND PART Dedicated to Wilhelm Gundert, my cousin in Japan KAMALA",
"Siddhartha learned something new on every step of his path, for the\nworld was transformed, and his heart was enchanted. He saw the sun\nrising over the mountains with their forests and setting over the\ndistant beach with its palm-trees. At ... |
1,476 | 2500_chapter_6:_amongst_the_people | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha visits Kamaswami who asks him whether he is in need of a job. When Siddhartha says he is seeking work, the merchant asks him his qualities. Siddhartha says that he can think, he can fast, and he can wait. The merchant is surprised at his response, for he thinks that these assets are of no use. He then asks S... | [
"WITH THE CHILDLIKE PEOPLE",
"Siddhartha went to Kamaswami the merchant, he was directed into a rich\nhouse, servants led him between precious carpets into a chamber, where\nhe awaited the master of the house.",
"Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair,\nwith very intelligent, caut... |
1,477 | 2500_chapter_7:_samsara | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha has always lived in the world without really belonging to it. He is different from ordinary people. His life is directed by the art of thinking, waiting, and fasting. Although his senses, which were deadened during the Samana years, are now being awakened, he still he remains a Samana at heart, despite tasti... | [
"SANSARA",
"For a long time, Siddhartha had lived the life of the world and of lust,\nthough without being a part of it. His senses, which he had killed off\nin hot years as a Samana, had awoken again, he had tasted riches, had\ntasted lust, had tasted power; nevertheless he had still remained in his\nheart for ... |
1,478 | 2500_chapter_8:_by_the_river | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha wanders into the forest far away from the town. He feels disgust for the life he has led. He reaches the long river which the ferryman had helped him to cross when he had returned from Gotama's grove. Weakened by fatigue and hunger, he stops on the banks of this river and wishes for an end to his life. Then,... | [
"BY THE RIVER",
"Siddhartha walked through the forest, was already far from the city, and\nknew nothing but that one thing, that there was no going back for him,\nthat this life, as he had lived it for many years until now, was over\nand done away with, and that he had tasted all of it, sucked everything\nout of ... |
1,479 | 2500_chapter_9:_the_ferryman | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha looks at the flowing water of the river with its varied hue; he is enchanted by and grateful to it. A voice within him tells him to love and learn from it. He then remembers the friendly ferryman who had taken him across the river when he first crossed to begin his Samsara life and seeks him out. The ferryma... | [
"THE FERRYMAN",
"By this river I want to stay, thought Siddhartha, it is the same which\nI have crossed a long time ago on my way to the childlike people, a\nfriendly ferryman had guided me then, he is the one I want to go to,\nstarting out from his hut, my path had led me at that time into a new\nlife, which had... |
1,480 | 2500_chapter_10:_the_son | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha's son is frightened and weeping. He is shocked to witness his mother's funeral. Even though the boy is spoiled, Siddhartha is kind to him. The father realizes that his son has grown up amidst riches and is used to living in luxury as his mother did. When the boy comes, Siddhartha considers himself richer; bu... | [
"THE SON",
"Timid and weeping, the boy had attended his mother's funeral; gloomy\nand shy, he had listened to Siddhartha, who greeted him as his son and\nwelcomed him at his place in Vasudeva's hut. Pale, he sat for many\ndays by the hill of the dead, did not want to eat, gave no open look,\ndid not open his hea... |
1,481 | 2500_chapter_11:_om | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Because of the depth of the love he had for his son, Siddhartha's pain over his loss does not quickly subside. One day, when his pain seems unbearable, he rows across the river to go to town to seek his son. As he crosses the river, its voice appears to be distinctly laughing at Siddhartha. When he bends down close to ... | [
"OM",
"For a long time, the wound continued to burn. Many a traveller\nSiddhartha had to ferry across the river who was accompanied by a son or\na daughter, and he saw none of them without envying him, without\nthinking: \"So many, so many thousands possess this sweetest of good\nfortunes--why don't I? Even ba... |
1,482 | 2500_chapter_12:_govinda | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Govinda spends a night at the pleasure garden donated by Kamala to Gotama. He hears of a ferryman who is considered to be a sage by many. He arrives at the river and tells the ferryman, who is Siddhartha, to take him across. Govinda recognizes his friend although he has greatly changed. The two old friends talk briefly... | [
"GOVINDA",
"Together with other monks, Govinda used to spend the time of rest\nbetween pilgrimages in the pleasure-grove, which the courtesan Kamala\nhad given to the followers of Gotama for a gift. He heard talk of an\nold ferryman, who lived one day's journey away by the river, and\nwho was regarded as a wise ... |
1,474 | 2500_awakening | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha leaves the grove where the Buddha lives, feeling that he has left his former life behind. He no longer has a desire to listen to teachers. Deciding that in seeking for the Divine, he has lost himself, he resolves no longer to try to escape from himself. He will no longer despise the world and regard it as an... | [
"AWAKENING",
"When Siddhartha left the grove, where the Buddha, the perfected one,\nstayed behind, where Govinda stayed behind, then he felt that in this\ngrove his past life also stayed behind and parted from him. He pondered\nabout this sensation, which filled him completely, as he was slowly\nwalking along. ... |
1,473 | 2500_gotama | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha and Govinda arrive in the town of Savathi. They spend the night nearby in the Jetavana grove, where the Buddha lives. In the morning they see the Buddha himself. He looks like the hundreds of other monks, but Siddhartha recognizes him by the complete peacefulness of his demeanor. In the evening, Siddhartha a... | [
"GOTAMA",
"In the town of Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha,\nand every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's\ndisciples, the silently begging ones. Near the town was Gotama's\nfavourite place to stay, the grove of Jetavana, which the rich merchant\nAnathapindika, an obedien... |
1,471 | 2500_the_son_of_the_brahman | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha is a young boy in India during the sixth century B.C., the time of the Buddha. He is the son of a Brahmin, a member of the priestly cast. Siddhartha is admired by all his family and friends, including Govinda, and he is expected to become a Brahmin priest. However, in spite of the fact that Siddhartha is muc... | [
"FIRST PART To Romain Rolland, my dear friend THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN",
"In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the\nboats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree\nis where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young\nfalcon, together with his... |
1,472 | 2500_with_the_samanas | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part One . With the Samanas . Siddhartha and Govinda join the Samanas and learn their ascetic practices. Siddhartha fasts until he grows thin, and he develops a contempt for the things of the world. His aim is to conquer desire and experience the innermost core of being. He tries to overcome pain, hunger, thirst and fa... | [
"WITH THE SAMANAS",
"In the evening of this day they caught up with the ascetics, the skinny\nSamanas, and offered them their companionship and--obedience. They\nwere accepted.",
"Siddhartha gave his garments to a poor Brahman in the street. He wore\nnothing more than the loincloth and the earth-coloured, unso... |
1,478 | 2500_by_the_river | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha wanders into the forest, knowing that he can never return to his former life. He is disgusted with his life and wants only oblivion. When he reaches the river, the same river he had been ferried across as a young man, he wants to throw himself into it and drown. Then he hears the holy word OM, which means "p... | [
"BY THE RIVER",
"Siddhartha walked through the forest, was already far from the city, and\nknew nothing but that one thing, that there was no going back for him,\nthat this life, as he had lived it for many years until now, was over\nand done away with, and that he had tasted all of it, sucked everything\nout of ... |
1,482 | 2500_govinda | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Govinda has heard talk of the wise old ferryman, and goes to see him. Siddhartha takes him across the river, but as happened the last time they met, Govinda does not recognize his old friend until Siddhartha reveals his identity. Govinda stays the night in Siddhartha's hut. Govinda asks Siddhartha whether he follows an... | [
"GOVINDA",
"Together with other monks, Govinda used to spend the time of rest\nbetween pilgrimages in the pleasure-grove, which the courtesan Kamala\nhad given to the followers of Gotama for a gift. He heard talk of an\nold ferryman, who lived one day's journey away by the river, and\nwho was regarded as a wise ... |
1,475 | 2500_kamala | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part Two . Kamala . As he journeys along his way, Siddhartha appreciates the beauty of the world in a way he has never done before. He resolves to gain more experience by following the voice of his own heart. After a strange dream in which his friend Govinda appears but then turns into a woman, Siddhartha gets a ferrym... | [
"SECOND PART Dedicated to Wilhelm Gundert, my cousin in Japan KAMALA",
"Siddhartha learned something new on every step of his path, for the\nworld was transformed, and his heart was enchanted. He saw the sun\nrising over the mountains with their forests and setting over the\ndistant beach with its palm-trees. At ... |
1,481 | 2500_om | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that he has felt the pain of losing his son, Siddhartha has more sympathy with the needs and desires of ordinary people. He again decides to seek his son in the town, but stops when he thinks he hears a special message from the river. He remembers when he rebelled against his own father, and realizes that his fathe... | [
"OM",
"For a long time, the wound continued to burn. Many a traveller\nSiddhartha had to ferry across the river who was accompanied by a son or\na daughter, and he saw none of them without envying him, without\nthinking: \"So many, so many thousands possess this sweetest of good\nfortunes--why don't I? Even ba... |
1,479 | 2500_the_ferryman | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part Two . The Ferryman . Siddhartha decides to stay near the river, which he loves. His inner voice tells him he can learn from it. The river is always flowing on and yet it is always present; its is always different and yet always the same. Hungry, Siddhartha walks along the river bank to the ferry. The ferryman is t... | [
"THE FERRYMAN",
"By this river I want to stay, thought Siddhartha, it is the same which\nI have crossed a long time ago on my way to the childlike people, a\nfriendly ferryman had guided me then, he is the one I want to go to,\nstarting out from his hut, my path had led me at that time into a new\nlife, which had... |
1,480 | 2500_the_son | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siddhartha's eleven-year-old son finds it difficult to adjust to life with his father in a small hut. He has been used to riches and luxury. Siddhartha waits patiently, hoping to win the boy over, but young Siddhartha shows no sign of returning his father's love. Vasudeva advises him to take the boy to the town, find h... | [
"THE SON",
"Timid and weeping, the boy had attended his mother's funeral; gloomy\nand shy, he had listened to Siddhartha, who greeted him as his son and\nwelcomed him at his place in Vasudeva's hut. Pale, he sat for many\ndays by the hill of the dead, did not want to eat, gave no open look,\ndid not open his hea... |
1,483 | 82_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The poem that comes just before the main text of Chapter 1 is from Homer's ancient Greek epic The Odyssey. Specifically, it's from Book XIV, in which the hero of the Odyssey, Odysseus, chats with his old pig-herder pal, Eumaeus. Based on the epigraph, it sounds like we're about to meet a pig-herder in this chapter. Sco... | [
"Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome,\n The full-fed swine return'd with evening home;\n Compell'd, reluctant, to the several sties,\n With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.\n Pope's Odyssey",
"In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the\nriver Don, there ex... |
1,484 | 82_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph for Chapter 2 is a passage from Geoffrey Chaucer's "General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales, written in the 1390s. This particular section of the Canterbury Tales describes a greedy, worldly monk - so we know what this chapter is going to be about. Gurth and Wamba rush down the road, but the horsemen cat... | [
"A Monk there was, a fayre for the maistrie,\n An outrider that loved venerie;\n A manly man, to be an Abbot able,\n Full many a daintie horse had he in stable:\n And whan he rode, men might his bridle hear\n Gingeling in a whistling wind as clear,\n And eke as loud, as doth the chapell bell... |
1,485 | 82_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter opens with a passage from James Thomson's long poem "Liberty," published in 1734. Clearly we are about to meet the book's hero, because Scott quotes this line from Thomson's work: "And the yellow-hair'd, the blue-eyed Saxon came." Cedric's main hall at Rotherwood is a large wooden room with exposed rafters... | [
"Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears\n The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong,\n And yellow hair'd, the blue-eyed Saxon came.\n Thomson's Liberty",
"In a hall, the height of which was greatly disproportioned to its\nextreme length and width, a long oaken table, formed of planks\nr... |
1,486 | 82_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We start out with the ancient Greek epic Odyssey again. This passage is from Book XX, in which long-lost Odysseus returns home in disguise to confront the horrible suitors for his wife Penelope's hand in marriage. The epigraph quotation describes an evening meal. Prior Aymer and Bois-Guilbert enter the hall for dinner,... | [
"With sheep and shaggy goats the porkers bled,\n And the proud steer was on the marble spread;\n With fire prepared, they deal the morsels round,\n Wine rosy bright the brimming goblets crown'd.\n * * * * *\n Disposed apart, Ulysses shares the treat;\n A trivet table and ignobler seat,\n ... |
1,487 | 82_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph from this passage is from William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. Scott quotes this same section in his "Dedicatory Epistle," so it must be really important to him. It's from a super-famous speech by Shylock, the Jewish main character, who demands to know why Jews should be treated any different... | [
"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,\n senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with\n the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the\n same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as\n a Christian is?\n --Merchant of Venice",
"Oswal... |
1,488 | 82_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph of this chapter is from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice again. Obviously, this is going to be Scott's go-to reference. This is another quote from Shylock, the play's main Jewish character. Shylock is apparently offering friendship to a Christian, Antonio. It's up to Antonio to take or leave Shylock's good... | [
"To buy his favour I extend this friendship:\n If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;\n And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.\n --Merchant of Venice",
"As the Palmer, lighted by a domestic with a torch, passed through the\nintricate combination of apartments of this large and irregular mansion,\n... |
1,489 | 82_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph for Chapter 7 comes from John Dryden's poem "Palamon and Arcite." This poem is based on Geoffrey Chaucer's "Knight's Tale," one of the Canterbury Tales. In these particular lines, we get a description of knights coming together for a tournament. Here we get a fairly heavy historical background chapter. Eng... | [
"Knights, with a long retinue of their squires,\n In gaudy liveries march and quaint attires;\n One laced the helm, another held the lance,\n A third the shining buckler did advance.\n The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet,\n And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit.\n The sm... |
1,490 | 82_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph for Chapter 8, like Chapter 7, comes from John Dryden's poem "Palamon and Arcite." The tournament continues, both in Dryden's poem and in <em>Ivanhoe</em>. Prince John suddenly remembers that they have yet to elect the Queen of Beauty and Love for the tournament. John wants to nominate Rebecca . The Norman... | [
"At this the challenger with fierce defy\n His trumpet sounds; the challenged makes reply:\n With clangour rings the field, resounds the vaulted sky.\n Their visors closed, their lances in the rest,\n Or at the helmet pointed or the crest,\n They vanish from the barrier, speed the race,\n An... |
1,491 | 82_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 9's epigraph comes from another John Dryden poem, "The Flower and the Leaf." In this passage Dryden describes a beautiful woman with the bearing of a queen. We're guessing from the poem that the main issue in this chapter will be who to name Queen of Beauty and Love for the tournament. The two tournament refere... | [
"----In the midst was seen\n A lady of a more majestic mien,\n By stature and by beauty mark'd their sovereign Queen.\n * * * * *\n And as in beauty she surpass'd the choir,\n So nobler than the rest was her attire;\n A crown of ruddy gold enclosed her brow,\n Plain without pomp, and ric... |
1,492 | 82_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph for Chapter 10 is from the beginning of Act 2 of Christopher Marlowe's 1594 play, <em>The Jew of Malta</em>. The title character, a Jewish merchant named Barabas, has been forced by the Governor of Malta to give up his property. Barabas swears to destroy these Christian thieves. The Disinherited Knight has... | [
"Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls\n The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,\n And in the shadow of the silent night\n Doth shake contagion from her sable wings;\n Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas,\n With fatal curses towards these Christians.\n --Jew of Malta",
"Th... |
1,493 | 82_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter's opening poetry passage is from Act IV of Shakespeare's play Two Gentlemen of Verona. In this dialogue, the main character Valentine encounters a band of outlaws on the road. Foreshadowing! As Gurth walks away from Ashby, he starts to worry about thieves in the countryside. After all, he is carrying a lot... | [
"1st Outlaw: Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about you;\n If not, we'll make you sit, and rifle you.\n Speed: Sir, we are undone! these are the villains\n That all the travellers do fear so much.\n Val: My friends,--\n 1st Out: That's not so, sir, we are your enemies.\n 2d Out: Peace!... |
1,494 | 82_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph to this chapter is from Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale," one of his hugely famous Canterbury Tales . Like the earlier John Dryden epigraphs , this passage describes a tournament. The second day of the tournament begins. This is the day of the general battle, when the knights fight in groups against ... | [
"The heralds left their pricking up and down,\n Now ringen trumpets loud and clarion.\n There is no more to say, but east and west,\n In go the speares sadly in the rest,\n In goth the sharp spur into the side,\n There see men who can just and who can ride;\n There shiver shaftes upon shield... |
1,495 | 82_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scott claims that the epigraph from this chapter comes from Homer's Iliad, but we find these lines in Book V of the Epigoniad, by a Scottish poet named William Wilkie . The lines describe an archery contest - so guess what this chapter is going to be about? Now that Ivanhoe is back, Prince John sees trouble coming his ... | [
"\"Heroes, approach!\" Atrides thus aloud,\n \"Stand forth distinguish'd from the circling crowd,\n Ye who by skill or manly force may claim,\n Your rivals to surpass and merit fame.\n This cow, worth twenty oxen, is decreed,\n For him who farthest sends the winged reed.\"\n --Iliad",
"The... |
1,496 | 82_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before this chapter we get the first six lines of Thomas Warton's 1787 poem "Ode XVIII to a New Year." Like all the other recent chapter epigraphs, this one is also a medieval-themed poem about knights and ladies gathering together. In this case, they are meeting up at a great hall. It's time for a feast. Prince John h... | [
"In rough magnificence array'd,\n When ancient Chivalry display'd\n The pomp of her heroic games,\n And crested chiefs and tissued dames\n Assembled, at the clarion's call,\n In some proud castle's high arch'd hall.\n --Warton",
"Prince John held his high festival in the Castle of Ashby. T... |
1,497 | 82_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph for this chapter is from a play called Count Basil: A Tragedy , by Joanna Baillie. The speaker of these lines, Minister Gaureicie, is technically a servant, but he's really an evil mastermind exploiting his master for his own ambitions. In other words, this passage indicates that we are about to find out m... | [
"And yet he thinks,--ha, ha, ha, ha,--he thinks\n I am the tool and servant of his will.\n Well, let it be; through all the maze of trouble\n His plots and base oppression must create,\n I'll shape myself a way to higher things,\n And who will say 'tis wrong?\n --Basil, a Tragedy",
"No spi... |
1,498 | 82_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scott opens this chapter with the first six lines of Thomas Parnell's poem "The Hermit." A hermit is a religious man who decides to leave the world behind and live alone, praying and meditating about God. The narrator reminds the reader about the Black Knight who had disappeared so suddenly at the end of the tournament... | [
"Far in a wild, unknown to public view,\n From youth to age a reverend hermit grew;\n The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell,\n His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well\n Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days,\n Prayer all his business--all his pleasure praise.\n --Parnell"... |
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