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It reminded me a bit of The Castle by Kafka.
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@ryanj1 - I can think of three instances off the top of my head where characters of novels experienced a transitional death bed epiphany: Adam's forgiveness of Cal in East Of Eden, Denathor recognizes Faramir in Lord Of the Rings: Return Of The King and Don Quixote realizing, and repenting, that he had gone out of his mind and thought himself a knight.ryanj1 wrote:I've only read 'The Heart of Darkness' and I enjoyed that a lot. Kurtz's final words are harrowing: what exactly is "the horror!"? It has a lot of appeal to postcolonial critics and many of them suggest that it's colonialism that's horrific, but it's such an ambiguous phrase that it stuck with me regardless of its associations. I also have 'The Secret Agent', which I will eventually read.
I think Kurtz's last words, "The horror!", were just such an epiphany. I think in his final moment before death he understood the thinness of the veil that separates man from his base and primal animal nature for he had experienced it himself. Much like "Rosebud" his final words were a summation. For Charles Foster Kane it was the realization of the innocence that had been lost when the natural path of his destiny had been diverted, and for Kurtz it was the realization that he had crossed the threshold which separates us from our animal nature and had looked the beast in the eye.
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DATo wrote:@ryanj1 - I can think of three instances off the top of my head where characters of novels experienced a transitional death bed epiphany: Adam's forgiveness of Cal in East Of Eden, Denathor recognizes Faramir in Lord Of the Rings: Return Of The King and Don Quixote realizing, and repenting, that he had gone out of his mind and thought himself a knight.ryanj1 wrote:I've only read 'The Heart of Darkness' and I enjoyed that a lot. Kurtz's final words are harrowing: what exactly is "the horror!"? It has a lot of appeal to postcolonial critics and many of them suggest that it's colonialism that's horrific, but it's such an ambiguous phrase that it stuck with me regardless of its associations. I also have 'The Secret Agent', which I will eventually read.
I think Kurtz's last words, "The horror!", were just such an epiphany. I think in his final moment before death he understood the thinness of the veil that separates man from his base and primal animal nature for he had experienced it himself. Much like "Rosebud" his final words were a summation. For Charles Foster Kane it was the realization of the innocence that had been lost when the natural path of his destiny had been diverted, and for Kurtz it was the realization that he had crossed the threshold which separates us from our animal nature and had looked the beast in the eye.
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