TagHisashi Nozawa

A Comparative Analysis of The Last Song and Wilhelm Meister’s Schooldays: How do they depict the process of personal and social growth?

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  This article compares Nozawa Hisashi’s The Last Song and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Schooldays to analyze their characteristics and differences as coming-of-age novels. It examines the protagonists of both works as they grow through a process of wandering, maturation, and arrival, and explores the social images and authors’ worldviews that each work reflects. In...