introducing 'Heart of Darkness'
- Created by: ninon02
- Created on: 21-09-21 03:31
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- HEART OF DARKNESS
- brief overview
- novella
- adventure
- author = joseph conrad
- year published = 1899
- original language = english
- main characters
- Marlow
- protagonist + pilots the steamboat
- Manager
- contemptible manager of the Central Station
- Kurtz
- evasive manager of the Inner Station
- The Russian
- youthful harlequin-like figure + nchanted by Kurtz
- The Jungle
- ever-present antagonist
- Helmsman
- dependable African for whom Marlow gains respect
- Marlow
- themes
- greed + imperialism
- While the stated goal of European colonization is to civilize native people, it is truly after resources
- Hypocrisy & Indifference
- The Company believes Kurtz's methods excessively brutal, yet overlooks its own ruthlessness
- Eloquence vs. Depravity
- Kurtz's eloquence nearly justifies his reputation as a great man in spite of his depravity
- greed + imperialism
- SYMBOLS
- Drums
- Unnerving vitality of native life
- Knitting Old Woman
- Placid detachment from cruelty
- Grisly Fence
- Standing indifference to calculated depravity
- Drums
- Heart of Darkness by numbers
- 9
- Age at which Conrad decided he'd someday visit Africa
- 32
- Conrad's age when he sailed up the Congo
- 1979
- Release of film Apocalypse Now, which updates the setting to the Vietnam War
- 9
- brief overview
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