Wen | Gu Ziyu
You will definitely become someone else, and you will have to take a longer, more painful, more difficult road. - Steppenwolf
In this ubiquitous era, how many societies are suffering in anxiety and uneasiness, waiting for a self-redemption, if you have the opportunity to read "Steppenwolf", you may have a different understanding.
"Steppenwolf" is an autobiographical novel by Herman Hesse, who has entered middle age after experiencing the confusion of youth, the search for growth, and the loss of self, and is facing a spiritual crisis.
Hali halle, the protagonist who spoke for himself in Steppenwolf, is a 50-year-old middle-aged man nicknamed "Steppenwolf".
The author unfolds in a multi-perspective manner, beginning to describe steppenwolf as a man in the publisher's preface, as the nephew of the landlord of Halle's rented house.
This fifty-year-old male scholar, with a decent identity and life, is financially prosperous, well-mannered, and extremely talented, but often melancholy and sentimental, such a social elite image.
Then, a pamphlet "On Steppenwolf" was inserted into the main text, which dissected the personality split characteristics of Steppenwolf and the suicidal population from the professional perspective of academic research, as well as the struggle and redemption of the inner world of this part of the people.
Later in the novel, Halle, the social elite, the isolated Steppenwolf, is such a multi-faceted character who struggles between reason and desire until he encounters a mysterious woman named Hermanmina.
Under her guidance, he found his own survival possibility in this world, let him feel loved and loved, until he was rescued from the pain of self-pity and self-pity.
His world was opened, and he began to explore the possibilities of life, began to embrace the world, learned to live, and learned to smile.
In the process of discovering itself, accepting itself, and redeeming itself, Steppenwolf has experienced the nirvana of tearing and growth, love and death, rebirth and redemption.
Hermann Hesse was once an important spiritual icon of the hippie movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, and many young people in the rebellious period were fascinated by Hesse and followed Hesse's example, and his characters wandered to find the spiritual paradise outside the West.
When Hesse wrote Steppenwolf, he was suffering from rheumatism, sciatic nerve pain, depression and anxiety at the same time, and experienced the blows of two failed marriages.
Because of his pacifist ideas and antipathy to nationalism, he was misunderstood, and witnessed the decline of European culture, and in this situation, he sought treatment from Jungian psychologists.
Steppenwolf can be seen as Hesse's self-healing journey, beloved by readers for his sincere dissection of the inner world and the true meaning of life.
In Steppenwolf, the reader can see the same fears and struggles as themselves, and the division of human nature is not surprising, because we can all be a Steppenwolf.
When a person falls into the abyss, the feeling of being surrounded by fear will make him not easily believe in others, nor will he be willing to open his heart to others, and he will close himself.
They are like a wolf hiding in a cave to heal their wounds, insecure, struggling and suffering in loneliness, whether they choose to bet desperately or wait for death in the same place, the inner world is constantly tearing.
Every social fear can see the shadow of their loneliness in steppenwolf, and self-redemption is the lesson that every steppenwolf has to face, starting from learning to accept themselves, finding their own problems, changing and growing, until they meet the self they like.
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