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9791815 No.9791815 [Reply] [Original]

i love lit but i have never really been able to connect with character. growing up on movies i think i became used to the character as embodied by the human subject, it's the same with theatre, photography, painting, the eyes.
for me characters in literature are always more representation than actual humans, symbol, rather than dynamic being. only the most idiosyncratic or bold characters like Don Quixote, Hamlet, or Stephen Dedalus really take root in my mind as individuals but still not as human beings.

thoughts? is it autism?

>> No.9791833

Because they're not humans, the're merely the authors concept of portraying ideas.
You're not supposed to "connect" with them, you'e supposed to understand the actions and or their ideologies and deduct your own interpretation.