Rejection of Social Values As a Key to Spiritual Survival
Individualism is an important value in western society and is purported to be a key to one’s spiritual survival. Therefore, in order to survive, an individual might need to express his non-conformism and reject certain social codes or values. ... Both Rose and Marlow realize that their spiritual survival depends on the rejection of certain social codes and this realization changes their behavior. ... Both of them follow similar stages: discomfort with the problematic values, realization of the dangers in accepting these values and finally the rejection of these values.