Demian is an excellent work. It creates an individual who goes deep into his heart to find himself. Sinclair experienced two poles of the world (light and darkness) in his childhood. His curiosity about the dark world exposed him to "evil" and gradually realized that "evil" existed in his heart. Demian, the soul guide, tried to make Sinclair understand and accept the real existence of "evil" in human nature by reinterpreting the "evil" in Cain's and the robber's stories. Sinclair fled into the bright world of his parents because of fear, but with the awakening of sexual consciousness, his heart struggled between darkness and light. Beya Torres awakened the image in his soul, from which he saw his destiny and had the desire to be reborn, just like a bird struggling for its shell in a painting, hoping to break the old world and find a new belief-the charm (a symbol of the unity of the two poles). In the process of searching, Sinclair gradually accepted the existence of "evil" in nature, broke the taboo consciousness imposed on him by the bright world, and realized that sex is not evil, and love is the fusion of devil and angel. Under the guidance of Pistorius, Sinclair saw the unity of light and darkness, divinity and magic. The two poles originally exist in the outside world, and the integration of the two is a whole. The mind's impression of good and evil is the projection of the external world, and both the external world and the internal world are reasonable. He strengthened his faith and began to listen to his inner call.

Demian, one of Hesse's representative works, tells the story of the young Sinclair's hard journey to find himself. Born and raised in the "bright world", Sinclair accidentally discovered a completely different "another world", where the chaos and darkness made him anxious and confused, and fell into the disaster caused by lies. At this moment, a boy named Demian appeared and took him out of the swamp. From then on, he began to find himself lonely. In the following years, "Demian" appeared in different identities and became his guide every time he was lonely and made difficult choices.

The writing background "Demian" became an inward dimension, which opened the "road to the inner". This change has something to do with the mental crisis induced by Hesse's multiple blows in the first decade of the 20th century. The crisis has brought about changes. Realizing his inner problems, he turned to psychoanalysis and began to dabble in Freud and Jung, who had a greater influence on him. Psychoanalytic theory influenced many novels after Hesse, including Demian. ?

About the author: hermann hesse (1877- 1962), originally from Germany, became a Swiss citizen in 1923 and lived in seclusion in the Swiss countryside for a long time. He is regarded as the last knight of German romanticism, and his masterpiece Wolf in the Wilderness (1927) once caused a sensation in Europe and America, and was praised by thomas mann as Ulysses of Germany. 1946, he was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature "because his inspiring works have great momentum and insight, and also set an example for lofty humanitarian ideals and noble style".