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Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a young man who wanders around aimlessly throughout Medieval Germany. The young man, Goldmund, has just left a Catholic monastery school in search of what could be described as "the meaning of life", or rather, meaning for his life. He was brainwashed by his single father into thinking he wanted to become a monk and use his life exclusively to serve God. Narcissus, a young teacher at the cloister school who has the uncanny ability to look into people’s souls and determine their destinies, quickly makes friends with Goldmund (they are only a few years apart, and Goldmund is naturally bright) and instantly recognizes that Goldmund is not meant for the monastery life. This comes as a sickening shock to Goldmund, whose mind had been going against his nature in a series of youthful mental conflicts recently. After straying too far in the fields one day, on an errand gathering herbs, he comes across a beautiful woman and they kiss and she invites him to have sex later. This encounter pushes him over the edge and he knows he was not meant to be a monk. Goldmund is filled with the desire to experience everything, learn about life and nature in his own hands-on way. With Narcissus’ support, he leaves the monastery and wanders around the countryside.
This sets the stage for the rest of the novel, which follows Goldmund on his many adventures on the move. It spans many, many years, detailing specific incidents where Goldmund learns something important, and he often muses on these findings and the ways of life.
The most poignant scene in the novel occurs when Goldmund is assisting a woman in labor. As the child is born, he sees the look of intense pain and suffering on the woman's face. This look reminds him of the look on women's faces when they have an orgasm. This scene leads us to conclude that pain and ecstasy are on opposite sides of the same spectrum, so they are naturally similar feelings. Many prominent emotions of ours that we can easily pinpoint are exclusive to our species. Greed, hatred, pride, and maybe even the most coveted emotion of all, love, are all strictly human emotions. Many basic natural emotions we possess have been subdued over time because of our intelligence. But the Ecstasy/Pain spectrum is the one major thing that still connects us to the natural world, these pure animal feelings that no one is ashamed of. These feelings come from our nature, and all humanity will forever be attached to it because of our most important emotions, the emotions that form the basis of all other emotions, the worst, most intense pain and suffering, and the greatest feelings of elation and ecstasy we could possibly imagine. We will never be able to escape these physical feelings, no matter how advanced our science or subdued our natural instincts.
De la Wikipedia, obvio :P
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