Steppenwolf : A Metaphysical Creeping: Philosophcal analysis of Hermann Hesse's Novel

Steppenwolf (1924) depicts the duality of human nature through the character of Harry Haller, who feels battle within him between his two selves : a man and a wolf. Longing for a wolf-less life, he learns to switch over to affective side from intellectuality and learns to reconcile the thousand selves of his personality. The philosophical analysis of characters’ chapter-wise development in this novel and the importance of events for describing human development pattern delineates how Hermann Hesse, ‘a writer of man’s interior’ presents his hero undertake self exploration within himself and into the world he lives. This book proclaims that Hesse’s thinking alludes to the interior of an individual journey than the exterior of it. His views provide a deep revelation about all the aspect of human life.