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3.02 AVERAGE
3.02 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
dark
slow-paced
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I understand why this is such a classic. Despite its flaws the book reads almost like a screenplay interspersed with the philosophical ramblings of our main character. What I don't understand is how a lot of people don't seem to get this book I don't think is our narrators realization of how close he is to Mr. Kurtz, we aren't under the impression that what we are seeing is a good person and the ending even exemplifies that by showing that even after Kurtz is dead The narrator still chooses to let him live as people remember him, as a good person. Because our narrator sees a lot of himself in Mr. Kurtz, he sees that evil the horror, he knows that he would be in the same position If not for fortunate circumstances and I think it is stupid to simply dismiss this novel as the racist colonialist nonsense as some of these reviews seem to do
my heart goes out to all the english majors out there that have to read this absolute piece of shit of a book fuck this book and fuck joseph conrad
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I don't even know what this was. The writing was good in spurts, but that's all the analysis I can muster.
Definitely understand why I didn’t like this in high school. The writing style is pretty dense and rarely comes up for air. That’s hard to enjoy if you aren’t “a reader” and are forced to read it. Even now I do confess it made me more sleepy than any other book in recent memory. That said, I actually kinda liked it. I also liked some of the painfully obvious annotations in my high school copy as well as the denser sections I clearly skimmed over because there’s not a single note.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes