A dream is an artistically elevated project in which its creator has the ability to include absolutely anything to his work of art. Marlow, from The Heart of Darkness, has the capability to escape from the real world and roam his own world, a world that he painted “black” with imagination. Some view him as a designer, an originator who can live within his dreams and communicate in a “language” only known to himself; but others, pessimistically, see him as a “neurotic”, a crazy man, because of his illusion of living in a fantasy. A dream is an uncontrollable state of mind, physically impossible to predict. Calling Marlow crazy because of his unconscious creativity is shocking. Thus, the artists are geniuses for obtaining the ability to create an entire world, to the smallest of details, from complete scratch. To call an artist purely “genius” is dismissing his creative insanity but to call an artist purely “neurotic” is neglecting his inventiveness. Therefore, I view the artists as “neurotically genius”, a description mixing the beauty, imagination, irrationality, and maladjusted qualities that both Karl and Conrad discuss and present.
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