Shinyoung 25th Oct

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.