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• ✅ Limbus Company is an RPG game developed by Project Moon.
• ✅ The 12 inmates in the game are based on world-renowned literary works.
• ✅ The name, setting, and story of each character reflect elements of the original work.

This video briefly introduces the plot and characteristics of the literary works that inspired each inmate.

• ✅ 'Wings' is a short story by Yi Sang, a representative Korean writer.
• ✅ The protagonist 'I' lives a listless life, isolated from his wife.
• ✅ The wife earns a living by welcoming guests in a bright room, while 'I' agonizes in a dark room.
• ✅ He realizes that the medicine his wife gave him is a sleeping pill and jumps off the roof of a department store in despair.

'Wings' depicts the image of an intellectual agonizing in a dark era from a first-person perspective.

• ✅ 'Faust' is a full-length play by German writer Goethe.
• ✅ Faust, a scholar despairing of life, makes a deal with the devil Mephistopheles.
• ✅ Mephistopheles shows Faust the pleasures of the world in exchange for his soul.
• ✅ Faust regains his youth and travels, experiencing various things.

'Faust' is a work that raises profound questions about human desire and salvation.

• ✅ 'Don Quixote' is a novel by Spanish writer Cervantes.
• ✅ A man who is obsessed with reading too many chivalry novels calls himself Don Quixote and sets out on a journey.
• ✅ He goes on adventures with the farmer Sancho Panza and experiences absurd events.
• ✅ He mistakes a windmill for a monster and charges at it, or believes a barber's basin is a golden helmet, doing ridiculous things.

'Don Quixote' is a work that humorously depicts the gap between dreams and reality.

• ✅ 'Hell Screen' is a short story by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
• ✅ The talented painter Yoshihide is hated by people for his heinous personality.
• ✅ Yoshihide is ordered by the lord to paint a hell screen, but wants to see a suffering woman for a realistic depiction.
• ✅ The lord locks Yoshihide's beloved woman in a burning cart, and Yoshihide completes the painting of the scene.

'Hell Screen' is a work depicting the madness and sacrifice of an artist.

• ✅ 'The Stranger' is a novel by French writer Albert Camus.
• ✅ Meursault is indifferent to his mother's death and enjoys swimming the day after the funeral.
• ✅ He gets caught up in a friend's fight, murders an Arab, and is put on trial.
• ✅ Meursault reveals the absurdity of society by answering that the reason for the murder was 'because of the sun.'

'The Stranger' is a work depicting the image of a human alienated in an absurd society.

• ✅ 'Dream of the Red Chamber' is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels, written by Cao Xueqin.
• ✅ Jia Baoyu, the son of a noble family who was born with a beautiful jade in his mouth, grows up loved by his grandmother.
• ✅ Jia Baoyu hates studying and likes women, and falls in love with his cousin Lin Daiyu.
• ✅ It is a work depicting the downfall of a family and the tragedy of love.

'Dream of the Red Chamber' is a grand novel depicting the downfall of Chinese feudal society and human desire.

• ✅ 'Wuthering Heights' is a novel by English writer Emily Brontë.
• ✅ Heathcliff is an orphan boy adopted by the Earnshaw family living in Wuthering Heights.
• ✅ He falls in love with Catherine, but her brother Hindley abuses Heathcliff.
• ✅ Catherine marries the wealthy Edgar, and Heathcliff leaves, vowing revenge.

'Wuthering Heights' is a tragic novel depicting love, revenge, and class conflict.

• ✅ 'Moby Dick' is a novel by American writer Herman Melville.
• ✅ Ishmael boards the whaling ship Pequod and visits Nantucket.
• ✅ Captain Ahab lost his leg to the white whale Moby Dick in the past and vows revenge.
• ✅ Ahab incites the crew to chase Moby Dick, and in the end, they all meet a tragic end.

'Moby Dick' is a work depicting human madness and the grandeur of nature.

• ✅ 'Crime and Punishment' is a novel by Russian writer Dostoevsky.
• ✅ A poor college student, Raskolnikov, murders an old pawnbroker and suffers from guilt.
• ✅ He believes in the idea that 'murder can be justified for a noble purpose.'
• ✅ He repents his sin through his meeting with Sonya and turns himself in.

'Crime and Punishment' is a work that raises profound questions about human conscience and salvation.

• ✅ 'Demian' is a coming-of-age novel by German writer Hermann Hesse.
• ✅ Sinclair meets Demian and grows up experiencing the world of good and evil.
• ✅ Demian presents Sinclair with new values and helps him find himself.
• ✅ Sinclair overcomes inner conflicts and discovers his true self.

'Demian' is a work depicting self-reflection and growth.

• ✅ 'The Odyssey' is an ancient Greek epic poem by Homer.
• ✅ Odysseus wins the Trojan War and sets out on a journey to return home.
• ✅ He kills Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon, incurring the wrath of the god and drifting at sea for 10 years.
• ✅ He defeats the suitors who covet his wife Penelope and returns home.

'The Odyssey' is an epic poem depicting the return and adventure of a hero.

• ✅ 'The Metamorphosis' is a novella by Franz Kafka.
• ✅ Gregor suddenly transforms into an insect one morning.
• ✅ The family locks Gregor in a room, and his sister Grete takes care of him.
• ✅ Gregor gradually weakens, and the family lives independently of him.

'The Metamorphosis' is a work depicting the loneliness and despair of alienated humans.