![]() Hermine marks for Harry the return from despair and the blossoming of new life ( Cox, February 2013). ![]() The female character in the novel, Hermine, draws out the multifauceted aspects of Harry’s psyche and introduces him to the bourgeois lifestyle (including a significant amount of sex and drugs) she also listens to him and chastises him for his self-pity ( Wikipedia article). Harry expresses in his manuscript the human condition to feel torn between two essential natures, and the feelings of isolation from society that can occur when a person acknowledges and focuses on these irreconcilable aspects of human desire ( Wikipedia article). ![]() I enjoyed Siddhartha as a mental exercise, but Steppenwolf had an emotional impact on me. The protagonist’s name is Harry Haller, and the story unfolds as if it were his manuscript (a technique probably used by Herman because of the tale’s strongly autobiographical elements) ( Wikipedia article). ![]() While Siddhartha relies heavily on the stories and principles of Eastern mysticism to engage with a series of (very distinct) self-discovery experiences, Steppenwolf is set in European culture and addresses the protagonist’s struggle with his dual nature as both a spiritual human and low, base wolf ( Cox, February 2013 Wikipedia article). My first exposure to the work of Herman Hesse was in his most well-known book, Siddhartha. ![]()
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