MixedHeart of Darkness features some morally ambiguous characters and that moral ambiguity is also represented in a book like Lord Jim and I think the themes in Lord Jim are a little bit more clear-cut.
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Lord Jim (1900)
Creators: Mixed This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.
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DislikedThe character himself, Jim, is just so precious and misunderstood and gloomy and moody, but all of those traits of his, he's just brattish and selfobsessed. So, the narrator is actually Marlo, same character as the narrator of Heart of Darkness. and Marlo, the book functions because Marlo is like so fascinated by Jim, but I just don't find Jim fascinating.
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Widely considered to be the first existential novella, Notes from Underground presents the diary of a bitter, misanthropic man. The unnamed narrator has, in an act of supreme defiance, withdrawn from society completely. Formerly a civil servant, this "sick" and "wicked" man suffers from incurable ennui and forsakes all interaction. Rallying against what he perceives as human evils, like war, love, and utopianism, he exiles himself from all humanity in favor of exalted loneliness and suffering. Readers bear witness to the friends, lovers, and crippling social pressures of nineteenth-century Russia that made him this way.
Notes from Underground, which preceded masterworks including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, is among Dostoevsky's finest works, melding fiction and philosophy.
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