I agree with Fredrick R. Karl in his idea that in order to analyze the heart of darkness correctly and for its full effect, it is impossible to compare it to English literature and it must instead be compared to works that are more philosophical in nature and present a character that is alone and out of society. Karl mentions works like Kafka’s Metamorphoses and calls the main character “underground”. While reading this passage and reading about the “underground” character, Holden from Catcher In The Rye which was written after heart of darkness by more then a century, it seems like these deep anti social characters make novels deeper then others because they serve to give people insight into places in their mind that they may not want to travel or are not able to truly grasp. My question would be does reading novels with characters that are not mainstream actually help influence the self discovery more because it forces the author to look inside him/herself in an attempt to find something that everyone yearns for as a whole and not an individual?
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