What you didn’t know about Demian
After reading some theories, I saw that a lot of you didn’t really understand the real point about Demian which is really sad because this book is really really good. I won’t make a theory about the live teaser but I hope that this lil explanation will help someone!
In a lot of theories, people linked Demian with the Wings album in a wrong way. Demian isn’t about “EVIIIIIIIIIIL, I CHOSE THE EVIL PATH BECAUSE THATS WHERE I BELONG, CAN U SEE HOW DARK I AM”
No, it’s not that. And I totally understand why you can think this is the meaning of this book! If you only read some pages you won’t understand!
To understand Demian you need to understand Nietzsche and the theory of the overman.
Why Nietzsche? Well first of all it’s him who wrote the “ You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star” quote that you can see in the MV but also in the album pics. But theres a second reason: Herman Hesse (the author of Demian) loves Nietzsche, he actually took inspiration of the overman theory for Demian!!! (plus the characters of this book talks a lot about N. just saying)
So what’s the overman theory?
“to reach our own inner freedom beyond the good and evil, beyond the rules they imposed to us” That’s the overman theory, and that’s the real meaning of Demian and of course (i strongly believe) the Wings album.
In the beginning of the book, Sinclair feels that he is strongly attracted by the evil world. (Boy meets evil). But then he found out that in reality the good and evil worlds need each other and are linked, you can’t have one without the other (abraxas the god of both evil and good). Demian teaches Sinclair that you need to recognize and preach the existance of the good and evil, and not only the evil part. (the overman theory). That’s why this book is amazing.
If they chose Wings as the interlude and the song in the live teaser it’s not for nothing, look at the lyrics of Wings:
I go places they tell me not to,
Do things they tell me not to do,
Want things I shouldn’t,
Get wounded again and again
You can call me stupid
Then I’ll just crack a smile
I don’t want to succeed
With work I don’t like
I push myself
Word
I trust myself, Since the reason why my back hurts
Is so that wings can sprout
I believe me, you, though the beginning may be humble,
The future will be prosperous
Fly fly up in the sky
Fly fly get ‘em up high
This is the path you’ve chosen kid, don’t chicken out
This is only the first flight after all
They are choosing their own path, beyong the good and evil. And I’m sure that this will be the theme of the next album, a liberation.
If you think about it, this links HYYH and Wings together: experiment, find your path, then your own liberty and finally you can fly.
So if you’re reading this, I hope you will fly one day.
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