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Hermann
Hesse Influences
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| Who or What Influenced Hesse |
How it Influenced Him |
Works it Influenced |
| The death of Hesse's father |
Writings told about cruel feeling of loss.
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"Heimkehr" and "Kinderseele" |
| Rebellion against formal education |
Parents' pressure led him to dislike school and to record his dislike
in various works.
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"Beneath the Wheel" |
| World War I |
disillusions brought by the war and by a series of domestic tragedies
help Hesse create novels, in seeking solutions, decided to accept "chaos"
of own consciousness, where the boundary between good and evil didn't seem
so sharp.
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"Demian" |
| Carl Jung |
Became focused on the spiritual search for new goals and values to
replace the traditional ones. Hesse's novels became increasingly symbolic
and psychoanalytical in approach as they focused on the individual's problems.
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"Demian", "Journey to the East" |
| A trip to India |
Learned about the early life of Budda.
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"Siddharta" |
| Father a missionary in Orient, parents wished him to study theology |
His novels revolve around religious experiences, and faith or losing
faith, Bible stories are found in many of his writings. |
"Demain" |