Siddhartha

Siddhartha Archetypes

Can anyone tell what the main Archetypes are in this book? I got the garden and tree, and river,

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What exactly is an archetype?

Yes - the wise teacher (Vasudeva - the ferryman), the faithful firend - Govinda and the troubled young man - Siddhartha at the beginning of the novel.

An archetype is an original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype