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- Herman Hesse’s novel | - Herman Hesse’s novel Demian tells of a young boy named Emil Sinclair and his childhood growing up. | ||
- Emil struggles to find his new self-knowledge in the immoral world and is caught between good and evil, which is represented as the light and dark realms. | - Emil struggles to find his new self-knowledge in the immoral world and is caught between good and evil, which is represented as the light and dark realms. | ||
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Demian (1919) - Herman Hesse
- Herman Hesse’s novel Demian tells of a young boy named Emil Sinclair and his childhood growing up.
- Emil struggles to find his new self-knowledge in the immoral world and is caught between good and evil, which is represented as the light and dark realms.
- Hesse uses much symbolic diction in his novel to describe his endless conflict between right and wrong.
- Demian is a strange, otherworldly boy, a couple of years older in age but appearing considerably more mature, almost adult.
- Demian is an enigmatic, almost magnetic character, and he begins to teach Sinclair about life, existence, the world: it is up to each individual, he tells him, to shape his own destiny.