Loneliness In Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf

The novel Steppenwolf had a dark and mysterious storyline. It shows how one can struggle with the feeling of loneliness. The novel Steppenwolf takes place in an unspecified, medium-sized town in a German-speaking country. The novel was taking place between the two world wars. “You are to live and learn to laugh,” (216). Everyone knows what it takes to live, but many struggle with knowing to laugh. Harry Haller feels to be a Steppenwolf a lonesome candid of steppes. Drifting away and alone in a world that is complex to him and brings him no joy. The feeling of loneliness began to show due to being torn and not able to make a decision. The author, Hermann Hesse of the novel Steppenwolf creates a mysterious and torn world for the fictional character Harry Haller. He doesn’t know what to feel and how he should react to it. The author and the main character walk us through and shows how loneliness can …show more content…
He thinks he has two sides of himself, it begins to tear Harry apart. “ Bah - the devil how bitter the taste of life!” (209). Harry thinks his passion on committing suicide will help him by not having to pick a side. Although, he is scared of the thought of death. He is split between two parts of himself that he cannot pick a side between so he considers the idea of suicide. “I desired nothing but to be beyond this wave of disgust” (196). Harry begins to hate himself because he can’t decide. It begins to make him think he is crazy. “Im crazy” (31). Harry believes he is going crazy because of how confused and dark the world really is. In the novel Steppenwolf you can tell that Harry is split into two different sides. “ The world itself knows nothing of above or below” (56). Harry is split between two different lifestyles and at the sametime is unable to submission himself to the happiness of the sense. Which makes him so determined that killing himself is the right