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Goldmund’s past suddenly catches up with him, and he is arrested and sentenced to death. When the priest comes to hear his confession, he is surprised to see none other than Narcissus. Narcissus is now the monastery’s abbot and has taken the name John. The two men have a long conversation about why God allows evils like plague.
Narcissus and Goldmund Quotes Showing 31-60 of 141. “Some day you will think of what I am going to say to you now: our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.”. ― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund. tags: friendship-and-love.
A central theme in Narcissus and Goldmund is the conflicting dichotomy present in the world and in every man: good and evil, life and death, joy and sorrow, thinker and dreamer, male and female ...
Aug 2, 2023 · In Hesse’s novel, Narcissus embodies the faculty of the “freezing” intellect, which sustains life by inner vision and contemplation, while the itinerant lover Goldmund continues to perform within the endless cycle of life and death. His concern is to go beyond belief, theology, and ethics into the pure and irresponsible realm of amorality.
Goldmund Quotes. Quotes tagged as "goldmund" Showing 1-8 of 8. “Men of dreams, the lovers and the poets, are better in most things than the men of my sort; the men of intellect. You take your being from your mothers. You live to the full: it is given you to love with your whole strength, to know and taste the whole of life.
Narcissus, sensing in Goldmund his own opposite and complement, wants to guide him in his confusion, but he holds back, aware that his jealous brethren might accuse him of falling in love with a ...
Narcissus and Goldmund. Hesse's novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of more worldly salvation. This conflict between flesh and spirit, between emotional and contemplative man, was a life study for Hesse. It is a theme that transcends all time.
