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Classic novels where the main character lives happily ever after? Pic related.

>> No.1362676

Silas Marner

Ivanhoe

>> No.1362777

Pretty sure Marlow from Heart of Darkness just sort of goes on with his life.

>> No.1362779

All Lies. Nobody livees happily ever after. Trash literature.

>> No.1362791

>>1362779
You're projecting your emotions to be reality.
many people live happily ever after.
However, rarely in good literature are there happy endings.

Candide ends pretty good.

>> No.1362796

>good literature are there happy endings.
Cause in reality there really are no such things as 'happy endings'.

>> No.1362805

Anna Karenina, suicide is bliss

>> No.1362810

>>1362796
Of course there are, some people fulfill their dreams, some fall in love, some learn to appreciate what they have. Everything is relative of course, but the toppling of Adolph Hitler was a happy ending for many people, the abolishment of slavery and then the civil rights movement was a happy ending for many people.

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>>1362810
Be careful of what you wish for. And new freedoms don't necessarily bring happiness. Freedom only brings you to the reality that you don't really know what you want or only to end of of multiplied unneeded wants, or as Dostoevsky said, "for while [we] have been given rights, [we] have yet been afforded the means with which to satisfy [our] needs."