This study deeply explores the direct and indirect cases for enhancing the key factors of ego-identity and future-oriented goals in adolescent developmental tasks, through the experiential narrative in Hermann Hesse’s 1906 novel Beneath the Wheel. T...
This study deeply explores the direct and indirect cases for enhancing the key factors of ego-identity and future-oriented goals in adolescent developmental tasks, through the experiential narrative in Hermann Hesse’s 1906 novel Beneath the Wheel. The novel sets up a dualistic structure of opposition, centering on a young protagonist who, through his experiences at the Maulbronn Seminary, struggles against the religious traditions of family and school and the rigid, hypocritical authorities that oppress him. It is an autobiographical novel by Hermann Hesse that seeks to support the growth of countless young people, like Hans, who are stifled beneath the "wheel" of a competitive educational system that crushes human creativity and willpower. Analysis of the text reveals that ego-identity and future-oriented goals are key factors in successfully achieving developmental tasks during adolescence. Based on these findings, the study discusses ways to enhance ego-identity and future-oriented goals as reinforcing factors for adolescent developmental tasks.