wise words from u/pleasefartonmyface [Image]Submitted by Thermon01 t3_yp2aaa in GetMotivated
inotparanoid t1_ivirrvr wrote
Reply to comment by Goldmansachs3030 in wise words from u/pleasefartonmyface [Image] by Thermon01
It's got it's flaws, but Berserk is one of the best Manga, nay, one of the best fiction ever written.
Regi0 t1_iviy9x4 wrote
No offense but what the fuck does berserk have to do with anything
It honestly sounds like you just wanted to talk about it and needed an excuse
inotparanoid t1_ivizcji wrote
You're kind of right. For some reason when I read that passage, I thought of Berserk. It's not the only thing in fiction which explores that specific idea of incomprehensible loneliness and pain: there are many others, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, though in a very different way than the others, Kafka on the Shore, A Wizard of Earthsea... So many others.
But what they have in common is the rejection of a destiny, the contemplation of loneliness, the struggle of life, brought out in all of its forms.
Berserk, the manga, falls right into the middle of it. It's visceral, but it talks about struggling against a destiny of death. And that's life.
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